Tag: Tyr

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Robert N. Taylor was born in 1945 and grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As a member of both the psychedelic underground as well as the anti-Communist paramilitary organization The Minutemen, Taylor participated directly in the violent social upheavals of the 1960s. In 1969 he started the music group Changes with his cousin, Nicholas Tesluk. After its revival in 1996, the group would go on to become a seminal part of the American apocalyptic folk genre. (more…)

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Damon T. Berry
Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2017

When I was in graduate school, one of my professors likened grading undergraduate exams to fever dreams, in which the events of the day — or, in his case, a whole semester’s worth of lectures — come back in garbled form. I have had the same experience reading about my ideas in the mainstream media.  (more…)

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Editor’s Note:

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

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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. (more…)

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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. (more…)

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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: (more…)

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TYR: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4
Ed. Joshua Buckley and Michael Moynihan
North Augusta, SC.: Ultra Press, 2014

Finally receiving the new issue of TYR, one feels torn between wishing that each volume could appear more frequently, or at least more regularly, and on the other hand, appreciation for the time and attention devoted to bringing out such unparalleled collections of articles, interviews and reviews of books and music devoted to the “Myth – Culture – Tradition” of the North by Messrs. Buckley and Moynihan.[1]  (more…)

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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

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Le thème dominant dans la plus grande partie de l’art et de la littérature produits pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle fut l’aliénation. Les auteurs parlaient de l’« âge de l’angoisse ». Ils décriaient le règne matérialiste de la « quantité sur la qualité », l’absence de toute valeur spirituelle significative, la rupture des relations entre les sexes, la dévastation de l’environnement, la mécanisation et la spécialisation excessive de la vie urbaine, et l’impérialisme de la mono-culture collective, avec ses « valeurs » vulgaires du progrès et de l’efficacité. (more…)

Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 1
Ed. Joshua Buckley, Collin Cleary, and Michael Moynihan
Atlanta: Ultra Press, 2002
286 pages

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