Showing posts with label Stephen McNallen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen McNallen. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Gods, Folk, and Destiny w/ Stephen McNallen
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An introductory stream to a new show by Stephen McNallen
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HrafnVolk Network is a new Asatruar/Odinic platform for some of the various leaders, along with common sense and educational information. Gods, Folk, and Destiny is Stephen McNallen's new program, so get the word out! This was the first program for McNallen; for the rest just look through their videos. They also have a duplicate channel on BitChute.com, which is an important free speech alternative to YouTube, and especially important in case the net finally breaks. A lot of YouTubers who talk our language have moved over there, perhaps to sort've hedge their bets.
If I could select a dozen people from around the globe to spend a weekend with to pick their mind, Stephen McNallen would be one. Apparently he no longer heads the AFA, but is something of a free-associating elder statesman for folk-Asatru.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Getting down to brass tacks - Great new interview with Stephen McNallen from The Pressure Project Podcast
The Pressure Project Podcast #182: THE WORLD OF ASATRU: A TALK WITH STEPHEN A. MCNALLEN
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*PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!* A guest I've been trying to get on TPP for a while, our schedules finally aligned for what I found to be both an entertaining talk and a powerful message. Stephen A McNallen has been spreading the power of the Gods for decades and his journey and outlook are well worth a listen!
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Sunday, June 21, 2015
Ancient Aliens - 'The Viking Gods' - Part 4
The above video was of a particularly good lecture by Stephen McNallen from 1993. He's always a fascinating speaker and interview. He's conducted quite a few interviews recently.
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Asatru-related videos
Steve McNallen on Red Ice Radio from June 9th - "Asatru: A Native European Spirituality"
"Asatru: The Ways of Our Ancestors" with Stephen McNallen On GW Radio (Gnostic Warrior Radio)
A Varangian Saga (latter adventures of the Vikings in service of the Byzantines)
What Are Runes? (an interesting short history)
The Nine Noble Virtues
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Some Heathen music
Viking Pagan Folk Song - Yggdrasill
"WOTAN" Video - "Under the sign of Odin's Ravens"
Eliwagar "Die Geheime Sprache Der Runen Im Schwarzwald
Vikings Return ! War - Burzum - Norvegian Black Metal
Odin's Dance
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Queen Wealtheow In the 2007 film 'Beowulf'This character of Wealthow was played by Robin Wright Penn in a semi-animated portrayal. She appeared so docile and beautiful, yet still such a strong character. Two memorable songs, in which she sang and played the harp, were 'Gently As She Goes' and 'A Hero Comes Home'.
Queen Wealtheow In Beowulf (both songs complete and uninterrupted)
A Lenda de Beowulf Queen Wealtheow (animated version of the Queen playing 'Gently As She Goes' in the Portuguese language version of the film)
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Seana Fenner on a version of Red Ice Radio
Radio 3Fourteen - Seana Fenner - "Odinism, Traditional Tribalism and The Noble Virtues"
Seana Fenner, also known as Odinia, is the founder of Odinia International, a worldwide native European Odinist organization whose headquarters are based in Hawai`i. She did her graduate work in archaeology at Oxford, has created and taught archaeoastronomy courses for the physics department at the University of Hawai`i, and worked for the NASA Infrared Telescope. She has two upcoming books, one on archaeoastronomy.
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Focus on the Folk
This was a rather enlightening, California/Nevada Odinic leadership panel, question and answer session. Some interesting ideas are floated around here.
Focus on the Folk Part 1
Focus on the Folk Part 2
Focus on the Folk Part 3
Focus on the Folk Part 4
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Question about "Double-Algiz" symbolI wanted to know if, in fact, the symbol shown here is an actual sign? I assigned the name "Double-Algiz" to it, as it appears like a Life Rune with double-petals so to speak.
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Various links and articles
Aryan Myth and Metahistory blog
Norse/Germanic Runes
Celto-Germanic Culture, Myths and History blog
'Odinism & Rodnovery and the Importance of the Fylfot'
'Contra Vitium: How VICE Mischaracterized a Religious Movement' ("vice" meaning vice.com)
List of Germanic deities
Wodenswolf - Norse art and craft (Freki Jungnickel)
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Stephen McNallen's new book
My Book is Now Available!
My first book - Asatru: A Native European Spirituality - is now available for preorder through Amazon!
This is it - the product of 45 years devotion to Asatru, in easy-to-understand words. I will write other books, but never one like this!
'Asatru: A Native European Spirituality' at Amazon.com
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'Sister Golden Hair' by America (1975)
I don't mean to read too much into something, but this song feels to me like a light tribute to Germanic or blonde beauty... behind what was obviously a simple ode to a young woman. I remember some years ago, taking an evening class at the College of San Mateo one summer. A 30ish sort've long-haired hippyish guy had a crush on this young 20ish woman from Russia. She was a tall, slender, very pretty blonde with a humble personality. He was tactful, but he tried to convey across some sort of expression of his like for her, although he didn't overstep his bounds. I recall of him saying to this young immigrant woman, something like "we're glad to have you here Zoya."
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
An Asatru Temple Unearthed in Norway. And Then...... Destroyed?
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[Borrowed from the 'Asatru Update' blog of the Asatru Folk Assembly]
March 31, 2012
As a man of Asatru, the faith of ancient Scandinavia and the Germanic lands, I was intrigued by a story in the news...
The site was old; dating from the fifth century. A circle of stones, 15 meters across and each stone standing a meter high, provided a central focal point. Leading up to the circle was a processional road that had not felt a human foot for a thousand years. To one side there had been a wooden structure supported by strong wooden pillars resting on firm stone footings,but the wood had disappeared long ago. The whole array had been carefully, lovingly buried in peat, preserved from plow and weather, deliberately hidden from those who would harm it, awaiting the day it would be safe to once again acknowledge the old Gods. Surely, those who covered it must have thought, the Christian madness will someday pass and our descendants will be glad that we have saved this for them...
When an intact pre-Christian temple was unearthed in Norway, archeologists were overwhelmed. Comments like "Unique!" and "Unprecedented!" splashed across Internet news pages.
But now, it has been demolished - bulldozed to make way for a housing development.
Could the pagans of old, as they tenderly buried the holiest place they knew, have imagined a world where gold was more important than Gods? Where their own descendants would raze their temple so that the profane houses of thralls would forever crush that which they loved? When the steel blade of the bulldozer bit into the sacred earth, the present spat on the past. The clear intentions of the ancestors were ruthlessly betrayed...for money.
What would I have done, had I been magically transported to the site at that crucial moment? Had I been the bulldozer driver, would I have refused, and lost my job? Yes, I think so. Had I been a bystander, would I have risked prison, injury, even death to stop the machine? I hope so. I am only a man, no hero. But sometimes, being a man is enough - if he is doing the right thing. As the poet wrote,
"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods?"
Money has carried the day. The site was presumably private property,being developed by a corporation, for profit. I have no objection to profit. But who owns the past? Who owns the ancestors? Who owns the Gods? Is there a "right" to bulldoze an ancient holy site in Norway or, as has been done, to level an ancient stone circle in Ireland...for profit? The most important things cannot be owned by anyone: I do not "own" my family name. I merely borrow it to pass on, with added honor, to my sons. I do not "own" the genetic and cultural inheritance left me by my forefathers and foremothers; this too I have only borrowed from my ancestors. They are not mine to destroy.
One of the old rune poems says that "Gold causes strife among kinsmen. The wolf grows up in the woods." Anyone who has sat in a lawyer's office to attended the reading of a will has seen this; kin battle to get money, and hate each other for the rest of their lives. And the wolf...he is none other than Fenris, the wolf restrained only by the bonds of love and kinship that we forge with each other, from generation to generation and across the centuries. When he is loosed, Ragnarok - the great battle at the end of this cycle of time - ensues.
In Norway, the wolf is loose. The gift of one's ancestors, passed on for a thousand years, thrown away for a pile or kroner. Not that all Norwegians would have plowed the temple of their forefathers, and not that America is any better. We, too, have sold - given away! - our inheritance. Materialism, narcissism, alienation and superficiality permeate our popular culture. Our laws, based on ancient codes, are corrupted by the judges. Every man's and woman's thoughts are the property of the emerging surveillance state. Truly, this is the time foreseen by the seeress: "Wind-age, Wolf Age, ere the world falls..."
The temple so lovingly preserved by Norwegians a thousand years ago emerged in this time and place for a reason. This is the time of Awakening - awakening, that is, if the Gods of honor and valor can win against the gods of gold and whoredom...if men and women will remember the ancestors...if blood runs true.
Across the Northlands the ravens stir in the trees. Great chieftains await the call, heroes strive to be reborn. But we, their descendants - no matter where on Earth we now live - must call them if they are to awaken.
I call them! I call on Odin and Frigga, Thor and Sif, Frey and Freya! I call on the ancestors all-holy, and the heroes who sleep in the mounds! Let us remember that we are the sons and daughters of warriors and poets, mystics and seers, adventurers and explorers! Even now, the old Gods stir. Organizations dedicated to the indigenous faith of the Northlands - called Asatru, or Odinism, or "Our Faith" or by many other names - exist in many countries. Like the emergence of a forgotten Norwegian hof in 2012, they are here because a wind of awakening blows through the World Tree. Because...it is time.
We will chain the wolf.
Update - The stones from the site have been removed and stored, though the place itself has been "developed," as they say. To follow the situation, go to the Facebook page "Bevar veet pa Ranheim." There is a web site at http://ranheimhelligdommensvelforening.wordpress.com/ . We must support this effort in any way we can. I will post more information as I get it.
The site was old; dating from the fifth century. A circle of stones, 15 meters across and each stone standing a meter high, provided a central focal point. Leading up to the circle was a processional road that had not felt a human foot for a thousand years. To one side there had been a wooden structure supported by strong wooden pillars resting on firm stone footings,but the wood had disappeared long ago. The whole array had been carefully, lovingly buried in peat, preserved from plow and weather, deliberately hidden from those who would harm it, awaiting the day it would be safe to once again acknowledge the old Gods. Surely, those who covered it must have thought, the Christian madness will someday pass and our descendants will be glad that we have saved this for them...
When an intact pre-Christian temple was unearthed in Norway, archeologists were overwhelmed. Comments like "Unique!" and "Unprecedented!" splashed across Internet news pages.
But now, it has been demolished - bulldozed to make way for a housing development.
Could the pagans of old, as they tenderly buried the holiest place they knew, have imagined a world where gold was more important than Gods? Where their own descendants would raze their temple so that the profane houses of thralls would forever crush that which they loved? When the steel blade of the bulldozer bit into the sacred earth, the present spat on the past. The clear intentions of the ancestors were ruthlessly betrayed...for money.
What would I have done, had I been magically transported to the site at that crucial moment? Had I been the bulldozer driver, would I have refused, and lost my job? Yes, I think so. Had I been a bystander, would I have risked prison, injury, even death to stop the machine? I hope so. I am only a man, no hero. But sometimes, being a man is enough - if he is doing the right thing. As the poet wrote,
"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods?"
Money has carried the day. The site was presumably private property,being developed by a corporation, for profit. I have no objection to profit. But who owns the past? Who owns the ancestors? Who owns the Gods? Is there a "right" to bulldoze an ancient holy site in Norway or, as has been done, to level an ancient stone circle in Ireland...for profit? The most important things cannot be owned by anyone: I do not "own" my family name. I merely borrow it to pass on, with added honor, to my sons. I do not "own" the genetic and cultural inheritance left me by my forefathers and foremothers; this too I have only borrowed from my ancestors. They are not mine to destroy.
One of the old rune poems says that "Gold causes strife among kinsmen. The wolf grows up in the woods." Anyone who has sat in a lawyer's office to attended the reading of a will has seen this; kin battle to get money, and hate each other for the rest of their lives. And the wolf...he is none other than Fenris, the wolf restrained only by the bonds of love and kinship that we forge with each other, from generation to generation and across the centuries. When he is loosed, Ragnarok - the great battle at the end of this cycle of time - ensues.
In Norway, the wolf is loose. The gift of one's ancestors, passed on for a thousand years, thrown away for a pile or kroner. Not that all Norwegians would have plowed the temple of their forefathers, and not that America is any better. We, too, have sold - given away! - our inheritance. Materialism, narcissism, alienation and superficiality permeate our popular culture. Our laws, based on ancient codes, are corrupted by the judges. Every man's and woman's thoughts are the property of the emerging surveillance state. Truly, this is the time foreseen by the seeress: "Wind-age, Wolf Age, ere the world falls..."
The temple so lovingly preserved by Norwegians a thousand years ago emerged in this time and place for a reason. This is the time of Awakening - awakening, that is, if the Gods of honor and valor can win against the gods of gold and whoredom...if men and women will remember the ancestors...if blood runs true.
Across the Northlands the ravens stir in the trees. Great chieftains await the call, heroes strive to be reborn. But we, their descendants - no matter where on Earth we now live - must call them if they are to awaken.
I call them! I call on Odin and Frigga, Thor and Sif, Frey and Freya! I call on the ancestors all-holy, and the heroes who sleep in the mounds! Let us remember that we are the sons and daughters of warriors and poets, mystics and seers, adventurers and explorers! Even now, the old Gods stir. Organizations dedicated to the indigenous faith of the Northlands - called Asatru, or Odinism, or "Our Faith" or by many other names - exist in many countries. Like the emergence of a forgotten Norwegian hof in 2012, they are here because a wind of awakening blows through the World Tree. Because...it is time.
We will chain the wolf.
Update - The stones from the site have been removed and stored, though the place itself has been "developed," as they say. To follow the situation, go to the Facebook page "Bevar veet pa Ranheim." There is a web site at http://ranheimhelligdommensvelforening.wordpress.com/ . We must support this effort in any way we can. I will post more information as I get it.
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Steve's New Podcast at Asatru Rising!
April 12, 2012
I've taken the Asatru Update blog post of a couple of weeks ago - the one about the destruction of the Norwegian temple - and made it into a podcast. You can find it at http://asatrurising.podbean.com. Some folks like my speaking better than my writing, so you get to hear my voice again!
Steve McNallen
Asatru Folk Assembly
http://runestone.org
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I just wanted to add a couple of links here. 'Archaeologists unearth 'unparalleled' pre-Christian temple in Norway' (from FreethoughtNation.com). This article goes into much greater detail regarding this news item, as well as an artist recreation of what the site may have looked like in it's day. This link was actually posted by YouTube user Fugitive2 on his video 'Pagan Temple Discovered in Norway!' I'm not going to link him now due to a couple of obscenities he used, but I may link a few of his other pagan-related videos later. He did bring up the point that many Christians claim that there isn't any real "evidence of paganism," I assume in Europe, and this now destroyed spiritual site is one such place. It was buried a millennium ago in fear that Christian zealots would destroy it.... and eventually someone did destroy it. I honestly have to wonder if this was done purposefully. Also, 'Unique pagan temple unearthed in Norway' (from The Archaeology News Network).
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