Leonard remembers places he's never been to, people he's never met, and rites he's never performed, and his life will never be the same. Leonard begins his journey unaware that his fate is controlled by Gods he's only read about. The lessons he learns are laced with danger and intrigue, and his search for identity ultimately takes him across the northern United States to find home, faith, and family. John Opskar's new novel incorporates Norse mythology and Earth-based spiritualism with a story of adventure and romance.
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Odin as Santa and the Norse influence Christmas. Author : Samantha Luccese Publsiher : Lulu. Odinsson Book Review:. Or at least, this is what conservative Odinists will tell you. In the 20th century, two leaders of the Odlnist faith have lived who have strongly influenced its development. Both men exerted their greatest influence prior to World War I1 in the 's and fs, and both authored several books.
General Ludendorf- was the renowned German professional soldier, who with General Paul Von Hindenburg, was the hero of the battle of Tannenburg where the Germans annihilated an army of invading Russians. After the war, the General,,with his second wife, Mathilde, became the spiritual leaders of the New Heathon in Germany.
He was the author of several books and ceaselessly campaigned for a moral regeneration of the German people. After the war, General Ludendorf was active in the suppression of the communists and served in the Free Corps, the Kapp Putsch, and other anti-communist fronts. He joined Hitler and the Nazi movement in the early ts, He broke with them after he became convinced that Hitler would ruin Germany. The Nazi's launched the Deer Hall Putsch in Munich in and Ludendorf marched with the Nazi's only to break with them after the attempted coup failed, Ludendorf never spoke to Hitler again because he thought that Hitler had shown himself a coward by diving for the ground when the shooting started.
Ludendorf died in , not living to see his predictions about Hitler come true. He had a small group which met regularly and celebrated the traditional four seasons and other Holy days of the old European religion. The two men, Ludendorf and Forth, were among the active leaders of Odinism in this century with General Ludendorf being the spiritual founder.
The Odinist religion, in North America at least is literally erupting from nowhere; springing from the ground. The author knows of individual after individual and group after group who were convinced that they were the only Odinists in the world, 8 and were astonished to discover that others had also independently re-discovered and returned to the old faith. Because they believed that the Christian religion which they had inherited had failed them personally or was failing our people.
I I I I "Christianity has emptied Valhalla, felled the sacred groves, extirpated the national image as a shameful superstition, as a devilish poison, and given us instead the imagery of R nation whose climate, laws, culture, and interest are strange to us ant1 whose history has no connection whatever with our own, A i1avi.
This is still the usage in Iceland, where the name of its followers is 'Asatruarmennt. In North America it is most commonly called Odinism, with the individual being known as an Odinist. It is also referred to as The Religion of the Teutonic Tribes. Numerous tribes on either side of the Baltic were subdued by the invincible valour of Odin, by his persuasive eloquence, and by the fame which he had acquired of a most skillful magician, The faith that he had propagated during a long and prosperous life he confirmed by a voluntary death.
Apprehensive of the ignominous approach of disease and infirmity, he resolved to expire as became a warrior. In a solemn assembly of the Swedes and Goths, he wounded himself in nine mortal places, hastening away as he asserted with his dying voice toiprepare the feast of heroes in the palace of the God of War", From a Footnote May we not suspect that superstition was the parent of depotism?
It was enriched with gold which the Scandinavians had acquired in their piratical adventures, and sanctified by war the uncouth representations of the three principal deities, the god of war, the god of generation, and the god of thunder. That Odin, yielding with indignant fury to a power which he was unable to resist, conducted his tribe from the frontiers of Asiatic Samatia into Sweden, with the areat design of forming, in that inaccessable retreat of freedom, a religion and a people, which in some remote age, might be subservient to his immortal revenge; when his invincible Goths, armed with martial fanaticism, should issue in numerous swarms from the neighborhood of the Polar circle to chastise the oppressors of mankind.
A thousand years ago when the longships of the Vikings scudded through the misty northern seas into the far off western world, or rode down the rivers of Russia to the Black Sea and into the Mediterreanean, the old stories of the battles of the Gods and Giants that had been repeated around the campfires for hundreds of years were still being handed down from generation to generation, Because he was afraid the stories were going to be lost, an Icelandic scholar, by the name of Saemund, the Wise, wrote down as many as he could collect.
They became known as the Elder Edda. About a hundred years later, another Icelander, a monk by the name of Snorri Sturleson, collected the same stories adding some others equally fascinating.
This collection became known as the Younger, or Prose Edda. These ancient stories wh?. These two books are the foundation documents for knowledge of the old Teutonic religion and culture, as well as being the official holy books of the re-emergent faith of the Asetru. That town was built on a much larger scale than others then in existence and in many ways with greater skill, so lavishly was it equipped.
There were twelve kingdoms with one over-king, and each kingdom contained many peoples. In the Citadel were twelve chieftains and these excelled other men then living in every human fashion. One of the kings was called Munon or Mennon. He married a daughter of the chief king Priam who was called Troan, and they had a son named Thor we call him Thor, Hewas brought up in Thrace by a duke called Loricus and, when he was ten years old, he received his fathers arms.
The Aesir and some of. For this reason, we shall not fail! There is only one "chosen" race of nature, the Aryan! Only through Odinism can Aryans be true to nature!
To organize religiously Nature's Chosen Race! Box 3. Where the family is functioning in its proper role, the power of competing entities, such as the State, will be limited. Where the family and other loyalty groups do not exist, all power gravitates to the State by default and freedom is threatened.
We believe in the efficacy of human action, We teach that by heroic action you can take your life in your hands and be the master of your soul.
The individual matter! You are not the pawn of historical forces, but possess free will, Courage is one of the more conspicuous Viking virtues, Followers of the Odinist Gods are taught to train themselves in the courage to fight an enemy in battle, to risk all courage to do the right thing, to stand up for what they believe, and never to compromise with Lhemselvea, Without courage, individualism and the clan would not long exist!
This courage becomes part of a stringent code of conduct, of honour, which will permit no shirking of one's duty, no oathbreaking, and no shameful or weak acts, - Needless to say, all of these values are under assault today, The economic collectivists, the behaviourists, the genetic engineera who would Isemove our aggressivenessd the followers of tho slave gods, the egalitarians, all of these cannot tolerate the existence of' the free man, the individual because the comparison shows their weakness.
There is a concerted program underway to destroy the' free ways of our heathen ancestors and replace them with a total collectivism in which our ways would be forever destroyed. We are supported by modern physics and by parapsychology when we state that there are other woralds of reality than our own, and that our Gods are as real as you or I, Our principal deities are Odin, Thor, and Frey, although we recognize the existence of others, Odin is the Father of the Gods, and the God of poetry and rune-magic.
Those who live a worthy life go to the realm of the Gods after death, More especially, the chosen warriors whb die in battle go to Odints hall, VaLhalla, there to feast,and fight until Ragnarok, Evil men and oath 'breakersare sent to He1 which unlike the Christian place of eternal torment, is not a place of fire and torture, but merely a gloomy and depressing place when contrasted with the life and vitality of Val-halla, Despite all of this, we are not as concerned with life after death as we are with living a full and useful life here on Earth, in our present life.
Odinists often have varying ideas about life after death, but few deny it exists. All, however, are more concerned with the here and now. The reconstruction is still imperfect, because so much has been lost, but we believe we have uncovered the,basics, and we stress these in our teachings. Perhaps our greatest obstacle is the stereotype, perpetuated by Hollywood and popular fiction, of the Norsemen as crude, cruel barbasians devoid of intelligence and culture, Those familiar with the great poetry of the skalds, the noble ethical precepts r of the Eddas, the literature of the sagas, or the beautiful artistry in woodcarving evidenced by the Oseburg finds know better!
In addition, the early Scandinavians developed an effective legal system and perfected shipbuilding techniques which surpass some of our engineering, a thousand years later. As for the charge of cruelty, the Vikings were no more cruel than the age demanded, Certainly they never committed anything as vicious as the Crusades, or the forced conversion of the North to Christianity!
How do Odinists practice their religion? We recognize the solstices and the equinoxes and celebrate these as part of the endless cycles of the years. In addition there are other special days of our own in which we commemorate events of sigqificance to our people, or honour the deceased members of the clan. If this strikes a responsive chord in your soul, if this is more important to you than having a secure religion to use as a crutch we invite you to join us in the Odinist adventure.
It is a Western Religion for Western Man, It is a religion based on Harmony with Nature; Love of Family; Respect for Race and Culture, It is a religion which stresses Courage and Pride; Honesty and Loyalty; Self-Improvement and Cooperation, Odinists believe that a spiritual revolution must take place to halt the moral decay that is the cancer of the Western World today, Odinists is not a Reformer, He is a s p i r t i t u a l r e v o l u t i o n a r y , He does not seek to rebuild a worn-out religion, but to build a New and Vital one, The necessity of a dramatic change in our society is brought home to us every day as the news media brings fresh news of drug abuse, street crime, corruption and moral degeneration, To counter this we have Odinism, a faith which is new, but based solidly on the time-tested faith and ethics of our forefathers, To be an Odinist means to be a member of a unique community.
A community of rational, dedicated people, bound together by mutual ideals and striving for a common goal: The creation of a society in which western civilization and culture can grow and advance to new heights, Odinism is not a faith for all mankind.
It is our belief that a religion to be effective, must harmonize with the intellectual and cultural characteristics of its adherents, Therefore, our faith is conceived as the religion for Western society and no other. Our principles are straight forward and not hard to understand, There are some of the tentets of our faith: 1 1. Every Odinist is kinsman and friend of every other Odinist, Speak the trmth to your kinsmen and make no conspiracies 2.
If you swear an oath or make a promise, stand by it no matter how difficult it may be. Strive to the utmost in all things you undertake, 4, 5. Strive constantly to improve your powers of body, mind and spirit, 6, Strive in all your actions to strengthen the bonds of kinship between fellow Odinists. Live in harmony with Nature and obey her laws, 8, Be aware of your racial and cultural heritage and instill their values in your children, 9.
The leader of the Iceland Odinists is the poet and farmer Sveinbjorn Beinteinsson. He lives on a farm about 60 miles from Reykjavik. At his farm the Odinists, known in Icelandic as Asatruar-menn, or "men t m e to the Aesir" hold feasts, religious ceremonies and an annual Blot, They have prepared a statement for outsiders, It contains their basic thoughts - 1, Odinism is the name of the religion which we recognize, but the faith is not restricted to Odin and the Aesir alone. It is permissable to revere other gods, the guardian spirits of the land and other mighty beings, 2, This religion" central theme concerns the individual's responsibility for himself and his affairs, On this matter we are supported by Snorr's Edda and other sacred writings, 3, It is permissable to have holy pictures and other symbols of the gods, but it is not the individuals duty to worship them.
Odinists who die may be buried in a churchyard, if the mourners so desire and the coffin is followed in seemly fashion. The Godi is required to adopt the role of spokesman if required.
The Godi shall lean the way in the development of the religion, but he does not have the sole responsibility for such development, All can be admitted as followers of Odinism, but each should at the same time resign formally from those organizations of which he'was previously a member, 1 11, It is natural to divide the followers of Odinism into groups in accordance with the individuals attitudes. Members present were. Omitted Items on the Agenda included - , a, The Nation of Odin, - 1 Report It being difficult to obtain true religious freedom, or freedom of expression, we seek the establishment of the religious Nation of Odin in the land presently called Greenland, a continuation of present policy.
Cultural projects of the Runic Society, - 2 Report Several projects continue to occupy cultural efforts of the society. Progress in acquiring a temple continues through the building qf a temple fund. Many projects of interest to Teutons have been started and completed. Helgi Hundingsbani was elected permanent chairman of the committee. We worship the creator through Odin, the All-Father, Thor, Frey, and the Aesir, The Faith is not restricted to the Aesir alone, It is pemissable to revere other gods or other mighty beings provided faith in these beings exists, or evidence of their existence is available, 1 Odin is the first and eldest of the Gods, the all pervading spirit of the sun, the moon, the stars, the hills, the plains, and of man, With his help were made heaven and earth and the first man and woman, All knowledge came from him, he is the inventor of poetry and discovered the runes.
He governs all things, protects the social organization, influences the human mind and upholds the sanctity of the oath, b, We believe in an afterlife, c.
We believe in predestination, d, Our sacred sign shall be the sign of the hammer, otherwise known as the Hammertoken. Religion and politics shall remain separate. The A s a t m Free Assembly is a California based religion that worships Odin, hop, and the Aesir, The high god of the Asatru is Odin, called the all-father, They revere the characteristics of the ancient Norse religion, some of which are listed below: 1. The Norse religion places an exceptionally high value on human freedom and on individuality, 2, The family unit is one of the pillars of Norse belief, Our people were always strongly devoted to their clan, and today the clan, the extended family, is as important to us as ever, It is one of the guarantees of liberty.
We believe in the efficacy of human action, By heroic action you can take your life in your own hands, The individual possesses free-will, 4,. Followars of the Norse Gods are taught to train themselves in courage.
We permit no shirking of one's duty, no oathbreaking, and no shameful or weak acts, We believe in an afterlife, Those who live a worthy life go to the realm of the gods after death, The chosen warriors who die in battle go to Valhalla, there to feasr, and fight until Ragnarok, Evil men and oathbreakers are sent to Hel.
He1 is not a plaee of fire and torture, but merely a gloomy and depsessing place, We are not concerned with life after death, but with living a full and useful life in our present life. The goddess who guards t h e golden Apples of Vahalla. A rnonument bui1. LIFr-The legendary founder of the new race of men after Ragnarok. Consort of Lif. The serpent comes up on land to fight against the Aesir at Ragnarok.
Mimir was killed by the Vanir, but his head was kept by Odin at the spring called Mimirs k? He inherits Thorts Ilammer Mjollner with his brother. A God of the Anglo-Saxons. Ancestor of the Kings of Essex and descendant of Odin. Vol sung. Frey i s t h e owner. Also the name of a son of Odin. L i t t l e known about him.
Lived from A,D. Believed based on a r e a l Viking. Chief of Royal blood. URDOne of the three Nors. Njord, Prey, and. VFA b r o t h e r of Odin. A prophetess. ISBN 1. You will meet quite a few of them in these pages.
A handbook of Norse mythology is a great guide to understanding the major deities, characters, themes, rituals and beliefs of Norse mythology. Available online At the library. For print-disabled users. Includes bibliographical references and index. The third edition Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. You can write a book review and share your experiences. ISBN The file will be sent to your email address. Physical description xv, p.
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