Esoteric Analysis of The Wicker Man (2006 & 1973) plus Midsommar

Esoteric Analysis of The Wicker Man (2006 & 1973) plus Midsommar

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This is deep! This woman knows her stuff! There's nothing I can add; she said it ALL. There could be the idea that she created this content as part of her ministry, but I give credit where credit is due. I look at it from a non-Christian, non-Masonic, non-Kabbalistic, folk pagan point of view.

 

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'Vikings' 10-episode part 2 of season 5 premieres tonight

VIKINGS SEASON 5 NEW TRAILER VIKINGS RETURN!

Ragnarok Edits



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Verônica Bonczynski (ArtStation.com)

Katheryn Winnick

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I like the black-and-white image of this piece as well, of which has a certain timeless allure. Katheryn Winnick is of Ukrainian descent, a region with some Viking roots. The Russian Czars were descended from the Viking rulers there.

There are some who are a bit unhappy with how the Asatru religion has been portrayed on 'Vikings', and a few other things; however, being one of the more popular TV programs, it still perhaps gives a needed promotion of Asatru/Heathenry/Odinism. Maybe it has planted the seed for some people.



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Top 10 HORRIFYING Facts About VIKINGS (video)
 

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Top 10 Best Vikings Moments

WatchMojo.com

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These are the stories they will tell in Valhalla. For this list, we are counting down the most brutal, emotional and shocking moments from "Vikings". Our list includes, Fighting the Earl, Aslaug's Death, The Raid at Lindisfarne, Ragnar's Goodbye to Athelstan, Rollo’s Betrayal and the Battle For Kattegat and more! Join WatchMojo as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Vikings Moments.

List Entries and Rank:
10. Lagertha Becomes Earl
9. Ragnar's Goodbye to Athelstan
8. The Raid at Lindisfarne
7. Fighting the Earl
6. Rollo’s Betrayal and the Battle For Kattegat
5. Ragnar’s Death
4. Aslaug’s Death
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Norroena Society

The Norroena Society

The Norroena Society and its mission.
www.norroena.org


Introduction to the Norroena Society

We at The Norroena Society are dedicated to the thorough and proper investigation of the ancestral traditions of Northern Europe as well as the promotion of our results and expansion of the Asatru faith. By keeping our hearts on the past, our minds in the present, and our eyes on the future we feel that we can maintain a strong institution of higher learning based upon a logical and spiritual understanding of our faith.

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Sound of the Gjallarhorn (podcast)

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'Vikings' Season 4 trailer (Feb 18)

Vikings Season 4 Official Trailer 

IGN

The exclusive first trailer for Vikings' fourth season, premiering Thursday, February 18th on History.

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‘Beowulf’ (2007) movie review

‘Beowulf’ (2007) [Wikipedia]

Beowulf is a 2007 American motion capture computer-animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, inspired by the Old English epic poem of the same name. The film was created through a motion capture process similar to the technique Zemeckis used in ‘The Polar Express’. The cast includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright, Brendan Gleeson, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, and Angelina Jolie. It was released in the United Kingdom and United States on November 16, 2007, and was available to view in IMAX 3D, RealD, Dolby 3D and standard 2D format.

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This film is animated in a way that it uses the actors’ “likeness” along with their voice over, which was interesting. I suppose that they almost had to make it that way due to the nature of the mythology, the creatures, and the dramatic action. I had watched this movie before, and I liked it more the second time today; most likely because I was able to view it in the morning, which is always better for watching a movie.

The opening scene begins with the text “Denmark A.D. 507.” Much of the movie takes place in Danish/Viking King Hrothgar’s (Anthony Hopkins) “Mead Hall.” They are soon attacked in the hall by a demon named Grendel. Grendel is huge, absolutely hideous, and vicious; and appears far too strong for the king’s soldiers. Responding to the king’s plea for a “hero” to defeat this beast, a great warrior from Gotland Island named Beowulf (Ray Winstone) arrives. I don’t want to give away the movie—and you can read the plot in the link above—but this is the basic storyline.

King Hrothgar’s much younger wife is Queen Wealtheow (Robin Wright), and I don’t think I would be giving too much away to say that she eventually becomes the future King Beowulf’s queen. Without going into the details, the king presents Beowulf the “Royal Dragon Horn,” which later becomes part of a covenant of darkness, and is a central part of the plot.

The struggle between Odinic spirituality and Christian religion is featured in some instances. Odin and Heimdall are mentioned; as well as the “new Roman god Christ Jesus.” The following quote was given by an older King Beowulf to his lieutenant, Wiglaf (Brendan Gleeson), at one point:

“The time of heroes is dead, Wiglaf. The Christ god has killed it. Leaving human kind with nothing but weeping martyrs, fear, and shame."

Grendel is an underworld figure that seems almost like half physical and half spirit; as well as his mother (Angelina Jolie). Grendel’s mother—another underworld demon—is a central character, but I won’t give away the plot. John Malkovich plays Unferth, one of King Hrothgar’s chief aids.

I was struck by the character of Queen Wealtheow. She was so beautiful and elegant—especially as she played the harp and sang—yet had so much humility. Her face and expression was so docile; of course, in an animated way. Later in the film—without giving away too much—she is shown as the older queen of Beowulf. He openly takes on a concubine named Ursula (Alison Lohman). The queen takes the high road and takes it all in stride.

She doesn’t hold anything against the young Ursula, and even heroicly saves her life at a later point. I guess where I’m really going with this is that—quite frankly—I thought the older queen was more beautiful than the younger woman... having aged like a fine wine. I didn’t like the way she was treated, carrying herself with such class.

I would recommend the film, which was an international box office success and is rated highly. It should be noted that scholars have mentioned certain inaccuracies with the thousand-year old English poem (see above link). Actually, the characters were real historical figures; being set within the framework of Norse mythology. Therefore, where does fact end, and mythology begin?

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The Arctic Home in the Vedas: Part 13 - "Thule, Saturn, & an alternative explanation"

Thule, Saturn, & an alternative explanation: Part 2


Thule (Wikipedia)


Inhabitants of Thule

The inhabitants or people of Thule are described in most detail by Strabo in his Geographica, having preserved fragments of the account of Pytheas who was an alleged eye-witness in the 4th century BC:

...the people (of Thule) live on millet and other herbs, and on fruits and roots; and where there are grain and honey, the people get their beverage, also, from them. As for the grain, he says, since they have no pure sunshine, they pound it out in large storehouses, after first gathering in the ears thither; for the threshing floors become useless because of this lack of sunshine and because of the rains.

Solinus in his Polyhistor repeated these descriptions, noting that the people of Thule had a fertile land where they grew a good production of crop and fruits.

Claudian believed that the inhabitants of Thule were Picts. This is supported by a physical description of the inhabitants of Thule by the Roman poet Silius Italicus, who wrote that the people of Thule were blue painted:

... the blue-painted native of Thule, when he fights, drives around the close-packed ranks in his scythe-bearing chariot.

The Picts are often said to have derived their name from Latin pingere "to paint"; pictus, "painted". Martial talks about "blue" and "painted Britons", just like Julius Caesar.

Eustathius of Thessalonica in his 12th century commentary on the Iliad, wrote that the inhabitants of Thule were at war with a dwarf-like stature tribe only 20 fingers in height. The American classical scholar Charles Anthon believed this legend may have been rooted in history (although exaggerated), if the dwarf or pygmy tribe were interpreted as being a smaller aboriginal tribe of Britain the people on Thule had encountered.

Middle Ages to nineteenth century

During the Middle Ages the name was used first of all to denote Iceland, such as by Dicuil, by the Anglo-Saxon monk Venerable Bede in De ratione temporum, by the Landnámabók, by the anonymous Historia Norwegie and by the German cleric Adam of Bremen in his Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church, where they cite ancient writers' use of Thule but also new knowledge since the end of antiquity. All these authors also understood that other islands were situated to the north of Britain.

Petrarch in the 14th century wrote in his Epistolae familiares (or Familiar Letters) that Thule lay in the unknown regions of the far north-west.

A madrigal by Thomas Weelkes entitled Thule from 1600, describes it thus:

Thule, the period of cosmography,
Doth vaunt of Hecla, whose sulphureous fire
Doth melt the frozen clime and thaw the sky;
Trinacrian Etna's flames ascend not higher...

Note: Hekla is an Icelandic volcano. Thule is referred to in Goethe's poem "Der König in Thule" (1774), famously set to music by Franz Schubert (D 367, 1816), and in the collection Ultima Thule (1880) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Dream-Land" (1844) begins with the following stanza:

By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named Night,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule –
From a wild weird clime, that lieth, sublime,
Out of Space – out of Time.

Modern use

A municipality in northern Greenland (Avannaa) was formerly named Thule after the mythical place. The Thule People, the predecessor of modern Inuit Greenlanders, were named after the Thule region. In 1953, Thule became Thule Air Base, operated by United States Air Force. The population was forced to resettle to Qaanaaq, 67 miles to the north (76°31′50.21″N 68°42′36.13″W only 840 NM from the North Pole).

Southern Thule is a collection of the three southernmost islands in the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, one of which is called Thule Island. The island group is a part of the British overseas territory of the United Kingdom and uninhabited.

The Scottish Gaelic for Iceland is "Innis Tile", which means literally the "Isle of Thule". Ultima Thule was the title of the 1929 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, set in colonial Australia.

Additionally, Thule lends its name to the 69th element in the periodic table, Thulium.

Ultima Thule is also the name of a location in the Mammoth Cave system. It was formerly the terminus of the known-explorable southeastern (upstream) end of the passage called "Main Cave," before discoveries made in 1908 by Ed Bishop and Max Kaemper showed an area accessible beyond it, now the location of the Violet City Entrance. The Violet City Lantern tour offered at the cave passes through Ultima Thule near the conclusion of the route.


Popular culture

Thule is used in Hal Foster's work, Prince Valiant, as the homeland of the eponymous character.


Nazi "Aryan" Thule
Nazi occultists believed in a historical Thule/Hyperborea as the ancient origin of the Aryan race. Much of this fascination was due to rumours surrounding the Oera Linda Book "found" by Cornelis Over de Linden during the 19th century. The Oera Linda Book was translated into German in 1933 and was favored by Heinrich Himmler. The book has since been thoroughly discredited. Professor of Frisian Language and Literature Goffe Jensma wrote that the three authors of the translation intended it "to be a temporary hoax to fool some nationalist Frisians and orthodox Christians and as an experiential exemplary exercise in reading the Holy Bible in a non-fundamentalist, symbolical way."

The Traditionalist School expositor Rene Guenon believed in the existence of ancient Thule on "initiatic grounds" "alone". According to its emblem, the Thule Society was founded on August 18, 1918. It had close links to the Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (DAP), later the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP, the Nazi party). One of its three founding members was Lanz von Liebenfels (1874–1954). In his biography of Liebenfels (Der Mann, der Hitler die Ideen gab, Munich 1985), the Viennese psychologist and author Wilhelm Dahm wrote: "The Thule Gesellschaft name originated from mythical Thule, a Nordic equivalent of the vanished culture of Atlantis. A race of giant supermen lived in Thule, linked into the Cosmos through magical powers. They had psychic and technological energies far exceeding the technical achievements of the 20th century. This knowledge was to be put to use to save the Fatherland and create a new race of Nordic Aryan Atlanteans. A new Messiah would come forward to lead the people to this goal." In his history of the SA (Mit ruhig festem Schritt, 1998), Wilfred von Oven, Joseph Goebbels' press adjutant from 1943 to 1945, confirmed that Pytheas' Thule was the historical Thule for the Thule Gesellschaft.

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Rethinking the Spirituality of Pre-Christian Europe

Upon reading the most recent blog entry from the Asatru Folk Assembly "Asatru Update," I found myself in fundamental disagreement with one part of it. I hope this is taken as something of a constructive criticism, but I think it's important enough to make mention of, as it has to do with the larger paradigm.

A number of leaders in the Asatru (Odinist) community have made statements such as "Asatru was the ancestral faith of our Northern European ancestors for 40,000 years." So, is that statement valid? Well, yes and no. During the last ice age, approximately 25,000 years ago, Northern Europe (and the rest of the northern lands on Earth) were covered in massive sheets of ice. It's not likely many people, if any, even lived there. The people who we now call "Germanic," probably lived in approximately the region of what we now call Iran. This region probably resembled modern British Columbia more than what we think of Iran as looking like today.

Although some form of Germanic polytheism probably does date back 40,000 years or so, it just didn't reside in Europe for that long. Occupying Europe first was a proto-European race, which we might loosely call "the Alpines." It's very probable that many symbols and traditions within Odinism have their roots in the spiritual traditions of the Alpines. For example, "casting a circle," the wheel of the year, the solar wheel, and the lunar cycles (the Moon represents the Maternal). Doesn't the "triple horns" of Odinism look a whole lot like the "triple moon" of European witchcraft? Ironically, the symbol of the Asatru Folk Assembly is the triple horns.

The article, of which I am questioning one aspect of, is entitled 'Asatru is About Drinking From Our Own Well.' I think it's a good article with many valid and reasonable points. However, it clearly suggests that "Wicca" is not "drinking from our own well." Well, lets examine that. Today's German ethnic root stock, to use just one example, probably has as much "Alpine stock" (meant sub-racially, not regionally) as they do Germanic stock. Even in Scandinavia, the Alpines long pre-dated the advance of the Germanics. All I'm saying is that the spiritual traditions of the Alpine sub-race IS our well! All Europeans. They lived here first. Before the Germanic people migrated westward from ancient north-central Eurasia; and before the Mediterraneans migrated westward from the ancient Middle East.

Now when "Wicca" is mentioned in the article, the conclusion is partly correct. Wicca is universal and eclectic. However, the root behind it, was every bit as European as is Asatru. I understand, they want to keep it simple for people. Still, Odinists seem to have a great respect for Druidism, which is a different spiritual path. There's a lot of overlap. Slavic paganism has many similarities with Odinism. The spiritual traditions of pre-Christian Europe overlapped. "Norse witchcraft" is likely a leftover from the earlier Alpine subrace. It's also possible that it developed from contact with people from Gaul, where many Alpine tribes still existed separately from Gaulish tribes right up to the conquest by the Romans.

The evidence suggests that the Alpine subrace lived all over Europe, and beyond, after the last icecap melted. Then, Mediterraneans migrated in waves across Southern Europe and North Africa, up into France, and into the British Isles. Next, Germanic people migrated across Northern Europe in two distinct waves. First, they migrated clear across central and northern Europe, intermingled with the Alpines, which probably produced the Celtic peoples. This may explain the wide range of descriptions of the Celts by Roman and Greek historians. Second, another wave of Germanic peoples migrated across Northern Europe, into the now dry region of Scandinavia, and were checked at Gaul. They overran the Alpines and Celts within their new territories, at least to the degree of which the "Germanic identity and language" became the dominant one.

From all of this sprang a wonderful diversity of spiritual traditions. The Druids likely were an offshoot of the Germanic people, while magical traditions in Scandinavia and Germany were probably from the earlier Alpines or Celts, or perhaps from more westward contact with those two subraces. Stegheria is, at least in part, likely a remnant from pre-Mediterranean central and south Italy. The ancient Etruscans, Umbrians, and others, had their own polytheistic traditions, but they probably merged with the earlier magical and earth traditions as well. Roman and Greek polytheism sprang at a later time, from similar pantheons of gods and goddesses it appears. Slavic paganism, also, seems to stem from a variety of sources (Germanic, Celtic, Alpine).

It seems clear that the variety of cultures in Europe goes hand-in-hand with the variety of pre-Christian spiritual traditions. So to digress, it's very possible that the "triple horns" symbol of the AFA, ultimately can be traced back to the "triple moon" (triple goddess) from the root traditon of Wicca. From clear back into the very ancient world when Germanic tribes from north-central Eurasia migrated into northernmost and north-central Europe and co-opted some of the powerful spiritual elements of the original Alpine subrace. Long ago, we met the others who were like us... and they became us.

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