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Richard Rudgley
The Return of Odin: The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2018

Richard Rudgley is a British author who has published several books offering unconventional interpretations of the ancient and prehistorical eras of Northern European history, as well as works on psychedelics. Read more …

Published: February 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, Asatru Folk Assembly, book reviews, C. G. Jung, Germanic paganism, Germanic tradition, John Morgan, neopaganism, North American New Right, Odin, originals, Wotan | 4 Responses

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Edred Thorsson’s History of the Rune-Gild

Collin Cleary

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Edred Thorsson
History of the Rune-Gild: The Reawakening of the Gild 1980-2018
North Augusta, S.C.: Arcana Europa, 2019

Edred Thorsson is one of a small handful of serious characters I am proud to know. To many, he appears to be an odd combination of “contradictions” (though these are only apparent, as I will explain at the tail end of this essay). First, he is a goði and Runemaster who speaks Old Norse with a Texas twang. Read more …

Published: April 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Edred Thorsson, Germanic paganism, North American New Right, occultism, originals | 4 Responses

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Video of the Day
Historical Worship of the Norse Gods

Video of the Day

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Dr. Jackson Crawford, a historical linguist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses the (sparse) information we have about worship, ritual, and prayer in pre-Christian Scandinavia. He is an experienced teacher of Old Norse, Modern Icelandic, and Norwegian.

Published: May 10, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Germanic paganism, runes, video of the day | Leave a comment

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The Struggle for Life in the Prose Edda

Guillaume Durocher

Friedrich Wilhelm Heine, The Ash Yggdrasil, 1886

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Snorri Sturluson
Translated by Jesse L. Byock
The Prose Edda
London: Penguin, 2005

There is always an air of mystery surrounding the most ancient religious texts. The great bulk were gradually developed through oral traditions, passed down, and then evolved from generation to generation. We typically know little or nothing about their authors, whether the Brahmins who composed the Upanishads or the Greeks’ notoriously elusive “Homer.” Read more …

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Germanic tradition, Guillaume Durocher, Norse mythology, Norse sagas, North American New Right, Odin, originals, paganism, Vikings, Yggdrasil | 7 Responses

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Ancestral Being, Part Four

Collin Cleary

Siegfried & Mime, Arthur Rackham, 1911

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here)

7. Concluding Reflections

I turn now to some thoughts on how the foregoing treatment of the influence of the past on the present ought to affect our own present, when we finish this essay and return to the real world.

It is a well-known fact that our ancestors acted with awareness of membership in the clan: trying to be worthy of their own ancestors, and not to disgrace them. Read more …

Published: March 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, clans, Collin Cleary, death, East vs. West, ethnicity, fylgja, Germanic tradition, hamingja, Heraclitus, heritage, heroism, individualism, logos, Norse sagas, North American New Right, Odin, originals, Plato, Stephen Flowers, the future, the individual | 4 Responses

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Ancestral Being, Part Three

Collin Cleary

Rupert Sheldrake

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Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 2 here; Part 4 here)

6. The Presence of the Past: A View from the Margins of Science

Some of the above remarks might suggest that we should interpret the Germanic hamingja–fylgja teaching as a mythic, symbolic, or even superstitious way of understanding the phenomenon of inheritance – something our ancestors relied upon because they did not have the modern science of genetics. Read more …

Published: March 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, articles, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, genetic inheritance, genetics, hamingja, heritage, North American New Right, originals, Stephen Flowers, the individual | 2 Responses

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Ancestral Being, Part Two

Collin Cleary

The Norns by Johannes Gehrts, 1889

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Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

4. Tradition

Having now discussed the clannic being of the individual purely in philosophical terms, I now turn to a consideration of the treatment of this idea in the Germanic tradition.

The first thing we must note is what can be called the “primacy of the past” in that tradition. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, C. G. Jung, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, genetic inheritance, Germanic tradition, hamingja, heritage, North American New Right, Odin, ontology, originals, Plato, Stephen Flowers, the future, the individual, time, Volsunga Saga | 1 Response

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Ancestral Being, Part One

Collin Cleary

4,538 words

Part 1 of 4 (Part 2 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

1. Introduction

This essay presents an “ontology of the individual.” The theory is new, though it has very old roots. “Ontology” is the branch of philosophy that studies being-as-such, or “being as being,” as Aristotle expressed it.[1] My argument is that the being of an individual person is bound up with that individual’s relation to his family or clan. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, G. W. F. Hegel, genetic inheritance, Germanic tradition, heritage, metaphysics, North American New Right, Odin, ontology, originals, Plato, the future, the individual, time | 2 Responses

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What is Odinism?, Part IV:
Odinism as an Esoteric Path

Collin Cleary

5,637 words

Editor’s Note:

This is part four of a four-part essay that first appeared in Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4.

Published: August 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Collin Cleary, Edred Thorsson, G. I. Gurdjieff, J. G. Fichte, Julius Evola, North American New Right, Odin, reprints, self-overcoming, Tyr | 3 Responses

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What is Odinism?, Part III:
The Odinic & the Faustian

Collin Cleary

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Editor’s Note:

This is part three of a four-part essay that first appeared in Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4.

Let us return to the story of Mímir’s Well, and Odin’s sacrifice of an eye. What does this loss signify? As Wagner recognized, it means that while Odin gains wisdom, he also becomes half blind.[1] On a literal level, this is obvious. Read more …

Published: August 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Collin Cleary, Faustian man, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, reprints, Tyr | 2 Responses

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What is Odinism?, Part II:
The Allfather

Collin Cleary

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Editor’s Note:

This is part two of a four-part essay that first appeared in Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4.

The idea that the Odinist must strive not just to become Odin but to surpass him – to seek to realize an ideal of perfect knowledge and supremacy – is obviously a very provocative one. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Collin Cleary, North American New Right, reprints, Tyr | 1 Response

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What is Odinism?, Part I:
Odin the Philosopher

Collin Cleary

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Editor’s Note:

This is part one of a four-part essay that first appeared in Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4.

This essay is dedicated to Edred Thorsson.

Edred Thorsson has stated that Odinism[1] is not the path of one who worships Odin, but who strives to become him: Read more …

Published: July 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Collin Cleary, Edred Thorsson, North American New Right, reprints, Tyr | 15 Responses

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Ásatrú a politično

Collin Cleary

6,126 words

English original here

Věnováno Georgi Hockingovi

1. Úvod

Published: August 31, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, Collin Cleary, in Czech, in translation, neopaganism, North American New Right, paganism, philosophy, religion, reprints, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Jack Donovan’s A Sky Without Eagles

Jef Costello

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Jack Donovan
A Sky Without Eagles: Selected Essays and Speeches 2010-2014
Milwaukie, Or.: Dissonant Hum, 2014

A Sky Without Eagles is Jack Donovan’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Way of Men (2012) – which has now sold an astonishing ten thousand copies. This anthology collects a number of essays and talks Donovan has given since 2010. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Asatru, book reviews, emasculation, infantilization, Jack Donovan, Jef Costello, manliness, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, Robert E. Howard, the Männerbund | 15 Responses

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Traitor to the Gods

Gregory Hood

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“Odinist” Glenn Miller wearing Christian emblem of the KKK

The purpose of contemporary political debate is not to discover truth, but to tag your opponent with positions he can’t defend. Like in other marketplaces, the man who profits most in the “marketplace of ideas” isn’t the one with the best product, but the one who is the best salesman, the slickest talker, and the best psychological manipulator.

Published: April 17, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, Frazier Glenn Miller, Glenn Miller, Gregory Hood, metapolitics, neo-paganism, North American New Right, reprints, spree killers | 9 Responses

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Asatro och det politiska

Collin Cleary

7,420 words

English original here

Denna uppsats är tillägnad George Hocking.

1. Inledning

Finns det ett samband mellan asatro och vit nationalism? Read more …

Published: August 31, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, Collin Cleary, in Swedish, in translation, neopaganism, North American New Right, paganism, philosophy, religion, reprints, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Ásatrú & the Political

Collin Cleary

7,524 words

Translations: Czech, Swedish

This essay is dedicated to George Hocking.

1. Introduction

Is there a connection between Ásatrú and White Nationalism? Read more …

Published: October 12, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, Collin Cleary, neopaganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, religion, white nationalism | 23 Responses

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Préface éditoriale à TYR vol. 2

TYR

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Il y a maintenant plus d’un an que le premier volume de TYR a paru. Il semble donc approprié d’utiliser l’espace ici fourni pour mieux clarifier nos objectifs, et pour répondre brièvement à diverses critiques et confusions qui ont surgi depuis le début de ce projet.

Les deux Traditions