Gibor rune

Ge, gi, gifa, gibor, gift, giver, god, gea, geo, earth, gigur, death, etc:


"Gibor-Altar"-God the All-Begetter!-God is the giver, and the Earth receives his gifts. But the earth is not only the receiver, she is also in turn a giver. The primal word is "gi", or "ge"; in it lies the idea of "arising"[to give], but it also indicates "being" in the idea of the gift, and "passing away to new arising" in the idea of go-ing. This primal word "gi" or "ge" can now be connected to other primal and root words, a few examples of which follow.
In connection with the primal word "fa" as: gifa, gefa, gea, geo, it indicates the "gift-begetting" earth, and with "bar" or "bor"[burn, spring], the "gift-burn" God.
As "gi-ge-ur"[the gift goes back to "Ur"[primal existence], in "Gigur", the "gift-destroying" frost-giant, who becomes a personification of death and later of the devil, appears to be named.
By the idea word "gigas"[gi-ge-as: the gift goes out of the mouth[as], out of the source the fiddle[Geige] is understood. This is the old skaldic magical instrument of awakening which introduced the song, and since "song"[bar] also means "life", the fiddle was one of the many ideographs[hieroglyphs, symbols] of rebirth, and it is for this reason that it is often found in graves as a sacred gift. Therefore it is not necessarily so that the dead man in whose grave a fiddle is found was a fiddle player. "Flutes and fiddles" enticed people to dance, to the excitement of love, and was therefore banned by the Church-with its ascetic temperament-because they served as magical instruments to arouse the human fyr[fire] of love.
So the Church replaced the Wotanic symbol of awakening with the Christian symbol of awakening "the trumpet of judgement".
The personal names "Gereon" and "Geretrut"[Gertrud] are rooted in the primal word "ge", meaning rebirth, and the hieroglyph of this, the "Head of Gereon", appears as an equilateral triangle made of three human profiles. But this Gereon is, in turn, the god incarnate in the All as the All-,World-, or Human-spirit. And for this reason the meaning of the "ge-rune" is closest to that of the "fyrfos". The difference between the two interpretations lies in the fact that the idea of the "ge" or "gibor"-rune seeks esoterically to approach the comprehension of the idea of the divine from below upward-in a certain sense from the level of humanity outward-while the explanation of the fyrfos seeks knowledge of God esoterically in the innermost level of man himself-and finds it. Thus it is known, as the spirit of humanity, to be unified with God from the standpoint of the "bifidic-biune dyad", and it will attain certain knowledge from inside out, as well as toward the inside from the outside. Here again the exoteric and the esoteric are clearly distinguished, and the fyrfos is recognised as an esoteric secret sign of high holiness which is represented exoterically by the "ge-rune". So, while the exoteric doctrine teaches that "man emerged from God and will return to God", the esoteric doctrine knows the "invisible cohesion of man and divinity as the `bifidic-biune dyad` "-and so it can be consciously said: "Man-be One with God!"

Fyrfos

Fyrfos, hook-cross.


The eighteenth I will eternally never
tell to a woman or maid;
it forms the best end to the lays-
which only One of All knows,
except for the lady who embraces me in marriage
or one who is also a sister to me.


In this eighteenth song, the skald again recedes from view; he lets Wuotan sing and speak in order to indicate that this highest knowledge of the primal generation of the All can be known and comprehended uniquely and alone by the nuptually bound divinities of the biune-bifidic dyad of united spiritual and physical power, and that only these, uniquely and alone, understand the thrice-high-holy secret of constant generation, constant life, and uninterrupted recurrence, and are able to perceive the mysterious[eighteenth] rune of these.
However, certainly worthy of note is the fact that the eighteenth rune which is actually present is a-doubtless intentionally incomplete- fyrfos, and that it hearkens back to this sign in both name and meaning-without, nevertheless, exhausting it. In this the intention of the skalds to guard vigilantly the fyrfos as their exclusive innermost secret, and as the sigil of that secret, can be seen. Only after yielding to certain pressures did they reveal another sign which partially replaced the fyrfos.
This sign, which can to a certain extent be seen as a "substitute" eighteenth rune, is:

Eh rune

Eh, marriage,[Ehe], law, horse, court, etc.


A seventeenth helps me with a lovely maid,
so that she will never be able to leave me.


The seventeenth, or "eh-rune" plays off against the sixteenth. While that one warns against frivilous transitory love affairs, the "marriage[Ehe]- rune" confirms the concept of lasting love on the basis of marriage as the legal bond between man and woman.
This is symbolically indicated by a later "eh-rune" in that the "laf-rune" is doubled in it, therefore symbolically saying: "two bound together by the primal law of life!"
Marriage[Ehe] is the basis of the folk, and therefore "eh" is again the concept of law, for according to an ancient legal formula marriage is the "raw-root"[Rauwurzel], that is, the law-root of the continuence of Teutondom. Therefore: "Marriage is the raw-root of the Aryans!"

Between the seventeenth and eighteenth rune the skald included the following verse:


These songs will be, to you, Loddfafnir,
for a long time well-nigh unlearnable,
rejoice, if you experience them;
take note, if you learn them,
use it, if you understand them.


After this interlude-strophe, he begins with the mysterious eighteenth rune which follows as he again lets Wuotan speak:

Yr rune

Yr, eur, iris, bow, rain-bow, yew-wood, yew-wood bow, error, anger, etc.

A sixteenth I speak to a coy maiden
to get me goodness and luck:
that changes and turns the wishes and mind
of the swan-white armed beauty.

The "yr-rune" is the inverted "man-rune", and as it designates the bow, so too does it present the waxing and waning moon in contrast to the full moon of the "man-rune", and so in the first instance it refers to the mutability of the moon, in the second instance as the "error-rune"-referring to the lunarlike mutability of the feminine essence, portrayed in later verses of the "Havamal" [Rules of Life] in the following way:

Do not trust the true words of a maid,
do not trust the woman`s true words,
her heart was shaped on a spinning wheel
the feminine heart is the home of fickleness.

The yr- or error-rune[Irr rune], which causes confusion, whether through the excitement of the passions in love, in play, in drink[ intoxication], or through pretexts of speech[ sophistry] or by whatever other means, will perhaps conquer resistance through confusion.
But the success of a victory gained by such means is just as illusory as the victory itself-for it brings anger, wild rage, and ultimately madness.
The "yr" or "error-rune" therefore also contrasts with the "os-rune", since it tries to force the conquest of an opponent with mere pretext instead of with real reasons. Therefore, it teaches: "Think about the end!"

Man rune

Man, mon, moon[ma=to mother], to increase; empty or dead].

A fifteenth I tell, which Folk-rast the dwarf
sang before the Doors of Day
to the Ases[Aesir] for strength, to the Elves for might,
to myself to clear my mind.

In another sense, as in that of the well-known folk-tale, "the Man in the Moon" reveals himself in the fifteenth rune as a sanctified sign of the propagation of the human race. The primal word "ma" is the hall-mark of feminine generation-"mothering"-just as the primal word "fa" is that of the masculine. Therefore, we have here "ma-ter"[mother] just as there we have "fa-ter"[father]. The moon mythico-mystically serves as the magical ring Draupnir[Dripper], from which every ninth night an equally heavy ring drips[seperates itself], and which was burned with Baldr; that is, Nanna, the mother of his children, was burned at the same time as Baldr. According to mythico-mystical rules, however, nights always means months, and to the "nine nights" mentioned above indicate the time of pregnancy. While the concepts of man, maiden, mother, husband[Gemahl], wife[Gemaehlin], marriage, menstruation, etc, etc. are rooted in the primal word "ma"[just like the concept "moon", with which they are all internally connected conceptually], they nevertheless symbolize individual concepts reconnected into an apparent unity according to the principle of the multiune-multifidic multiplicity. So too is the conceptual word for this unity rooted in the primal word "ma" and expressed "man-ask" or "menisk", that is: man[Mensch]. Therefore-as a concept of unification-the word "man" is only of one gender[masculine], while the derogatory concept belongs to the third stage as a neuter, to which we will return later. The fifteenth rune encompasses both the exoteric and esoteric concept of the high mystery of humanity and reaches its zenith in the warning: "Be a man!"

Laf rune

Laf, lagu, loegr, primal-law, sea, life, downfall[defeat].

A fourteenth I sing to the gathered folk
by naming the divine names
for all of the Ase[Aesir] and Elven kind
I know as well as any.

The intuitive knowledge of the organic essence of the All, and therefore of the laws of nature, forms the unshakeable foundation of Aryan sacred teachings, or Wihinei[religion], which was able to encompass and comprehend the All and therefore also the individual in its arising, working, and passing away to new arising. Such esoteric knowledge was communicated to the folk in symbolically formulated myths, for the naive popular eye, unaccustomed to such deep vision and clairvoyance, could no more see the primal law than the physical eye can see the whole ocean, or the unschooled inner, spiritual eye the endlessness of life in the All. Therefore the fourteenth rune says: "First learn to steer, then dare the sea-journey!"

Bar rune

Bar, beork, biork, birth, song[bar=song], bier, etc.

A thirteenth I name, I sprinkle the son
of a noble in the first bath[pre-Christian baptism]
when he goes into battle, he cannot fall,
no sword may strike him to the ground.

In the bar-rune the spiritual life in the All, the eternal life in which human life between birth and death means but one day, stands in contrast to this day-in-the-life in human form, which goes from bar[birth] through bar[life as a song] to bar[bier, death], and which is sanctified and charmed by the "water of life" in the baptism. This[day-in-the-] life is bounded by birth and death, and even if destiny has not at once appointed a sword-death for the bairn-he is still exposed to this and many another danger. For in spite of the determination and dispensation of destiny, dark chance rules, based in the free will of men, and it is against such a maleficent decree of chance that the sacred blessing is supposed to work. The Germanic people did not recognise any "blind fate". They did believe in a predestination in the greatest sense, but they intuitively saw that many restrictions[chance accidents!] stand in the way of the completion and fulfillment of predestination in order to fulfill and steel personal power. Without these accidents, for example, every pine tree would have to be strictly symetrical in all its parts; one would have to be the same as the next, while in fact no two can be found that are exactly alike, and so too it would have to be in human life; all without difference, uniform and equal. For this reason the newborn should be consecrated with the "water of life" against impending accidents. Therefore: "Thy life stands in the hand of God; trust it in you."

Tyr rune

Tyr, tar, tur, animal[Tier], etc.[Tyr, the sun-and sword-god; Tiu, Zio, Ziu, Zeus; "tar"-=to generate, to turn, to conceal; thus Tarnkappe[cap of concealment], etc.

A twelfth I have: if on a tree there hangs
a man throttled up on high;
then I write some runes
and the man climbs down and talks to me.

The reborn Wuotan, i.e., the renewed Wuotan who has climbed down from the world-tree after his self-sacrifice, as well as the renewed "fanisk"[phoenix], which flies up out of the ashes, is personified in the young sun-and sword-god Tyr.
According to the rule of mysticism, every magical belief moves parallel to mythology, in that the mythic pattern is adopted in analogies to human-earthly processes, in order to reach results similar to those given in the myths.
While esotericism on the basis of the well-known bifidic-biune dyad recognises the mystic One in the mystic Many-and therein it sees the fate of All and hence of every individual-in eternal change from passing away to rebirth. As Wuotan returned after his self-sacrifice-which is to be understood not merely as his death, but rather as his whole life-in a renewed body, so also does every single person return after every life in human form with a renewed body through a rebirth-which is equally a self-sacrifice.
For this reason, "tar" means to generate, to live, and to pass away-and therefore Tyr is the reborn young sun. So too is the twelfth rune at the same time a "victory-rune", and hence it is carved into sword blades and speaheads as a sign to give victory. It shall be said: "Fear not death-it cannot kill you!"

Sol rune

Sol, sal, sul, sig, sigi, sun, sal-vation, victory[Sieg], column[Sauele], school, etc.

An eleventh still I also know in the fight,
when I lead the dear one:
I sing it into the shield and he is victorious in battle
he fares hale hither and hale home again
he remains hale everywhere.

"Sal and sig!"-sal-vation and victory-[Heil und Sieg].
This millenia-old Aryan greeting and battle-cry is also again found in a variant form in the wide-spread call of inspiration: "alaf sal fena!" This has become symbolised by the eleventh sign of the futharkh as the sig-rune[victory-rune]: "The creative spirit must conquer!"

Ar rune

Ar, sun, primal fire, ar-yans, nobles, etc.

I use the tenth, when through the air
ghostly riding-women fly:
when I begin that magic, they will fare
confused in form and effort.

The "ar", the "urfyr"[primal fire, god], the "sun", the "light" will destroy spiritual as well as physical darkness, doubt, and uncertainty. In the sign of the Ar the Aryans-the sons of the sun-founded their law[Rita], the primal law of the Aryans, of which the earn, or eagle[Aar] is the hieroglyph. It sacrifices itself, as it consecrates itself in a flaming death, in order to be reborn. For this reason it was called the "fanisk" and later "phoenix".
Therefore it is read as a symbolic hieroglyph when an eagle is laid on the funeral pyre of a celebrated hero to indicate that the dead hero rejuvinatingly prepares himself in death for rebirth in order to strive for a still more glorious future life in human form in spite of all the restrictions of the powers of darkness-all of which crumble before the "ar": "Respect the primal fire!"

Is rune

Is, ire, iron[Eisen].


A ninth I grasp, when for me need arises
to protect my ship on the ocean:
then I will still the storm on the rising sea
and calm the swell of the waves.

Through the "doubt-less consciousness of personal spiritual power" the waves abound-"made to freeze"-they stiffen as if ice. But not only the waves[Wellen] [symbolic of the will[Wille]], all of life is obedient to the compelling will. Countless examples of the "ag-is-shield" of Wuotan, such as the "Gorgon`s Head" of the Athenians, the "Ag-is-helm"," all the way down to the hunting lore and practice of causing an animal to "freeze", and modern hypnosis, are all based on the hypnotic power of the forceful will of the spirit symbolised by this ninth rune.
Therefore: "Win power over yourself and you will have power over everything in the spiritual and physical worlds that strives against you."

Nauth rune

Nauth, noth[need], Norn, compulsion of fate.

An eighth I have, surely for all
most needful to use:
wherever discord grows among heroes,
since I know how to settle it quickly.

"The need-rune blooms on the nail of the Norn!"
This is not "need"[distress] in the modern sense of the word, but rather the "compulsion of fate"-that the Norns fix according to primal laws. With this, the organic causality of all phenomena is to be understood. Whoever is able to grasp the primal cause of a phenomenon, and whoever gains knowledge of organically lawful evolution and the phenomena arising from it, is also able to judge their consequences just as they are beginning to ferment.
Therefore, he commands knowledge of the future and also understands how to settle all strife through "the constraint of the clearly recognised way of fate." Therefore: "Use your fate, do not strive against it!"

Hagal rune

Hagal=the All-hedge, to enclose; hail, to destroy.

A seventh I know, if I see a fire
high around the housing of men
however wildly it may burn, I will bring it to rest
with taming magical songs.

Hagal!-Introspective awareness, the consciousness to bear his God with all his qualities within himself, produces a high self-confidence in the power of the personal spirit which bestows magical power, a magical power which dwells within all persons, and a power which can persuade a strong spirit to believe in it without any doubt. Christ, who was one of those rare persons-as was Wuotan-said:"Verily, verily, I say to you, if someone were to say to this stone:
move yourself away!-and he believes in it-then this stone would lift itself away and fly into the sea."
Borne by this doubt-less consciousness, the chosen one controls the physical and spiritual realms, which he contains comprehensively, and thereby he feels himself to be all-powerful. Therefore: "Harbour the All in yourself, and you will control the All!"

Ka rune

Ka, kaun, kan, kuna, kien, kiel, kon, kuehn[bold],kein[none], etc.

A sixth is mine, if a man hurts me
with the root of a strange tree;
the ruin he threatened me with
does not hurt me but consumes him.

The "world-tree" Yggdrasill serves in the narrower sense as the Aryan tribal tree, beside which the tribal trees of foreign races are seen as "foreign trees". The runic concept "kaun", "kunna"[maid, eg., in [the name] Adelgunde] demonstrates the feminine principle in the All in a purely sexual sense. The tribe, the race, is to be purely preserved; it may not be defiled by the roots of the foreign tree. If it were nevertheless to happen, however, such would be of little use to the "foreign trees", because its "foreign scion" would grow to become its raging foe. Therefore: "Your blood, your highest possession."

Rit rune

Rit, reith, rath, ruoth, rita, rat[rede], roth[red], rad[wheel], rod, rott, Recht[right], etc.

A fifth I heard, if from a happy flight
a shot flies into the host;
however swiftly it flies, I will force it to stop
if I can only catch it with my gaze.

The thrice hallowed "Rita", the solar-wheel, the "Urfyr"[primal fire, God] itself! The exalted introspective awareness[Innerlichkeitsgefuehl] or subjectivity of the Aryans was their consciousness of their own godliness, for "internity" is just "being-with-one`s self", and to be with one`s Self is to be with God. As long as a people possesses unspoiled their entire original "internity" as a "natural people", it also has no cause to worship an external divinity, for an external divine service bound by ceremony is only made obvious when one is not able to find God in one`s own innermost being, and begins to see this outside his "ego" and outside the world-"up there in the starry heaven". The less internal the person is, the more outward his life becomes. The more a people loses its internity, the more pompous and ceremonialized its outward manifestations become-in the character of its government, law, and cult[all of which will begin to emerge as seperate ideas]. But they should remain one in the knowledge: "What I believe, is what I know, and so I also live it out." For this reason, the Aryan divine-internity is also the basis for a proud disdain for death among the Aryans and for their limitless trust in God and in the Self, which expresses itself gloriously in the "Rita",[cosmic order,law] and which has the fifth rune as its symbolic word-sign. Therefore, this rune says: "I am my rod."

Os rune

Os, as, ask, ast=Ase[i.e., one of the Aesir], mouth, arising, ash, ashes.

A fourth still I know, when someone throws
my arms and legs into fetters:
as soon as I sing it, I can go forth,
from my feet fall the fetters
the hasp falls from my hands.

The mouth, the power of speach! Spiritual power working through speech[power of suggestion] bursts physical fetters and gives freedom, it itself conquers all conquerors, who only gain advantages through physical force, and it destroys all tyranny. Therefore: "Your spiritual force makes you free!"

Thorn rune

Thorr, thurs, thorn=Thorr[thunder,thunderbolt,lightning flash], thorn.

A third I know, which is good to me
as a fetter for my enemies
I dull the swords of my opponents
neither weapon nor defense will help him.

The "thorn of death" is that with which Wuotan put the disobedient Valkyrie, Brunhild, into a death-sleep[cf. Sleeping Beauty et al], but in contrast to this it is also the "thorn of life"[phallus], with which death is conquered by rebirth. This threatening sign surely dulls the opposing weapon of the one going to his death, as well as the force of the powers of death, through a constant renewal of life in rebirth. Therefore: "Preserve your ego!"

Ur rune

ur=Ur[i.e., "the primordial"], eternity, primal fire, primal light, primal bull[=primal generation], aurochs, resurrection[life after death].

I learned another, which people use
who want to be doctors.

The basis of all manifestation is the "Ur". Whoever is able to recognise the cause[Ur-Sache="primal or original thing"] of an event, to him the phenomenon itself does not seem to be an insolvable puzzle-be this fortunate or unfortunate-and therefore he is able to banish misfortune or increase luck, but also to recognise false evil and false luck as such. Therefore: "Know yourself, then you will know all!"

Meanings of the Armanen Runes-fa rune

There are 18 rune staves in the Armanen futhorc of Guido von List.

fa/feh/feo= fire-generation, fire-borer, livestock[Vieh], property, to grow, to wander, to destroy, to shred[fetzen].

The first promises to help helpfully
in the struggle and in misery and in every difficulty.

The root-word "fa", which is symolized as the "primordial word" in this rune, is the conceptual foundation of "arising", "being"[doing, working, ruling], and of passing away to new arising"-and so of the transitoriness of all existence and therefore of the stability of the "ego" in constant transformation. This rune conceals, therefore, the skaldic solace that true wisdom only lives for the evolution of the future, while only the fool mourns over decay: "Generate your luck and you will have it!"

[Guido von List, The Secret of the Runes]

Guido von List and the Armanen Runes

The voelkisch[folkish] movement of the early 20th century owes a great debt to the ideas and research of the Aryan mystic and runologist, Guido von List[1848-1919].
Von List wrote many articles and books on the runes and Germanic pre-Christian religion, most notably `Das Geheimnis der Runen`[The Secret of the Runes], published in 1908.
Das Geheimnis der Runen is generally regarded as his most important work as it is concerned with the introduction of a `new` runic futhorc and the interpretation of the runes which von List received in visions during a period of temporary blindness in 1902.
Von List`s `Armanen Futhorc` has its origins in these visions in which von List is said to have communicated with the Teutonic Volksgeist[folk soul] and received esoteric knowledge from the dead priests of the Germanic peoples, the `Armanen`.
Although the futhorc that von List introduced in his book was previously unknown to runic scholars he claimed that it represented the original futhorc and is indeed based upon Odin`s Rune Poem.Odin/Wotan/Woden/Wuotan/Wodanaz gained the knowledge of the runes via a shamanic self-sacrifice and communicated this knowledge to those of the Aryo-Germanic race.
Whilst there are various different versions of the runic futharc or futhorc von List claimed that his Armanen futhorc represented the original 18 runes that All-Father Odin received during his shamanic visions when he hung nine days and nine nights upside down on the world tree.

"I know that I hung on a windy tree
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows
from where its roots run.

No bread did they give me nor drink from a horn,
downwards I peered;
I took up the runes, screaming I took them,
then I fell back from there."

[Havamal 138-139]

The poem goes on to explain how the runes may be used to achieve various goals via rune magic.
There are obvious echoes of the Christian crucifixion within the Havamal.However there are clear differences also. Whilst the Christ supposedly died as a sacrifice of a vengeful `god` for the `sins` of mankind Odin sacrificed `himself to himself` and did so to achieve knowledge, in particular the knowledge of the runes. Odin continually goes in search for new knowledge and there are many tales of him walking amongst men, disguised as the `Wanderer` in search of new knowledge, always ready to test his knowledge against men and dwarves alike.
Odin`s search for knowledge can be likened to the Promethean and Faustian quest of Aryan man.
Like the All-Father Himself, we too as spiritually awakened Aryans seek new knowledge and new enlightenment. It is this very sense of restlessness that spurs us on to new goals, new achievements and a thirst for new knowledge and experiences.
Guido von List, like Odin experienced the runes in a visionary state whilst in communion with the racial Collective Unconscious, what Jung called the `land of the dead`.
We will explore these Armanen runes and the significance of the Armanen in a future article.

The Sun Hero in Ancient Aryan Mythology

The myths of the Indo-European peoples are replete with the recurring motif of the Sun Hero.
Examples of such hereos are:-

Krishna
Buddha
Mithras
Osiris
Horus
Serapis
Hercules
Dionysius/Bacchus
Prometheus
Achilles
Meleagros
Baldur
Siegfried/Sigurd
Tammuz

In the words of the Aryanist Charles Morris in his `Aryan Sun-Myths. The Origin of Religion`[1899]-

"All Indo-Germanic nations have worshipped crucified saviours and overwhelming proof was obtained that the sun-myths of the ancient Aryans were the origin of the religion in all of the countries which were peopled by the Aryans".

One thing that many of the sun myths of the ancient Aryans and other peoples had in common was the concept of the god-man that came down from heaven to act as a mediator between the deity[ies] and man. Often the day of his birth is said to be on 25th December and frequently he is born of a virgin, suffered a sacrificial death and then on the third day would `rise again`.
It is not too difficult to recognise the parallels between the myth of the Aryan Sun Hero/god-man and the birth, life and sacrificial death of Christ.
Much of what we know about the life and `miracles` of Christ in the New Testament is a direct plagiarism from Indo-European mythology. This was an intentional process.
The early church fathers recognised that in order for their new religion to take a hold upon the non-Semitic Aryan peoples they would have to adapt their very Jewish early Christianity into a form of religion that would be likely to be more readily embraced by the Aryan peoples.
It is no accident that St Paul deliberately broke away from the more parochial, exclusive and Jewish form of Christianity espoused by St Peter and developed his own form of Christianity which stripped of its Jewish roots would be a more inclusive and universalist religion.
The early evangelists were very quick to superimpose their religion as a gloss over the religions of the indigenous Aryan peoples, knowing that the transition from paganism to Christianity would be more smoothly accomplished. However this cross-fertilisation was not purely one way.
James C. Russell in his `The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity. A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation` makes the case that Christianity`s attempt to impose itself upon medieval northern Europe resulted in a hybrid religion, a Christianity heavily influenced by paganism and a paganism influenced by Christianity.
Mr Russell states "This Germanization process is often overlooked. Studies of the interaction between Christian and Germanic religion and culture customarily focus upon the Christianization process as the active force and Germanic paganism as a passive or reactionary phenomenon. This is understandable, since there is no evidence of a major drive by non-Christian Germanic peoples comparable to that of the Emperor Julian to restore or advance pre-Christian Roman religion. Yet there did exist a subtle but pervasive Germanizing force which resulted primarily from a missionary policy of accommodation and gradualism, instead of a policy requiring preliminary doctrinal and ethical inculcation."[Page 38]
Whilst the medieval church ruthlessly imposed Christianity upon the peoples of northern Europe and tried to suppress the ancient lore of our ancestors they could not completely eradicate the beliefs of northern European man. Our lore never went away completely. Traces of it can be found within the myths, legends and folktales orally transmitted down the generations and then finally committed to parchment by Christian scribes.
A study of the beliefs and rituals of medieval Christianity can also reveal clues as to the existence of buried Aryan wisdom.
The role of the spiritual Aryan man of the 21st century is to uncover these lost truths.
Apart from the recognised scholarly methods of uncovering these we can also resort to the practice of accessing our ancestral memories through analysis of our dreams and hypnotic induction/regression.
Carl Gustav Jung posited the theory that just as there is a personal Unconscious within each of us there is also a Collective Unconscious which is the store-house of all our ancestral memories.
Nothing is ever completely forgotten:all can be recovered.
We will turn to this subject in a future article.

The Solar Origins of the Aryan Race

There are many different ways to explore the origins of the Aryan peoples.
We can choose to do so using empirical science and the disciplines of archaeology, geology and the theories of evolution and natural selection but we can also approach the question from a spiritual and/or esoteric basis.
Too often we naively suppose that only `science` so called has any valid answers to the questions of our origins but we forget that science can only approach things from a very narrow angle and perspective and even its findings are subject to constant debate and change.There are only theories;no proven `facts`.
Baron Julius Evola,the great Aryan philosopher and mystic wrote in chapter 19 of his `Ride the Tiger`-
"The apogee of the myth of physical science coincided with that of the bourgeois era, when positivist and materialist scientism was in favour."

And again-

"None of modern science has the slightest value as knowledge;rather,it bases itself on a formal renunciation of knowledge in the true sense."

So where do we seek understanding about our origins? Where should we turn to as a starting point?
I would suggest that we turn to the great store-house of myth that has been faithfully preserved by our ancestors down the millenia.
For Germanic peoples that means the Eddas and the Sagas of the pre-christian era.
Germanic myth in common with the myths of all the other Indo-European peoples is solar in nature.
The great sun hero Siegfried/Sigurd is just such an example of a Germanic solar hero.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner[1813-1873] based most of his music dramas upon the myth of the Aryan sun hero with characters such as the afore-mentioned Siegfried, the swan knight Lohengrin,Tannhaueser and Parsifal.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky[1831-1891], the founder of `Theosophy` in volume 1 of `The Secret Doctrine` referred to the first race of man as being celestial in origin. Mankind has in stage regressed from spirit into matter. The first two `Root Races` were aetherial in nature. By the time of the Third Lemurian Root Race man had descended into matter.
The Fifth Root Race, the Aryan race is destined to give way to a higher being of man,the sixth and seventh Root Races. The German philosopherFriedrich Nietzsche[1844-1900] referred to the coming man as the `Uebermensch`, the over man or higher man. As Aryans our destiny is to evolve from matter into spirit, to be born again as the sun hero. Siegfried/Sigurd is the prototype of this new man.
The question of how our race collectively and how we as individuals can progress to this stage will be addressed in a seperate post.

Purpose of the Blog

This blog is dedicated to the exploration and discussion of Aryan[ie Indo-European] and related myth and metahistory.
Metahistory is an alternative method of viewing the past and is linked to the founding myths of our ancestors. H.T. Hansen in his foreward to Baron Julius Evola`s `The Mystery of the Grail` quoted from the Emperor Julian the `Apostate` " That which never happened is eternally true."
Metahistory and myth allows us to explore those aspects of our past which cannot be explained or clarified by empirical science. The fact that these themes cannot be adequately explored by science makes them no less real or valid. It is in my opinion, another no less valid approach to uncovering the truths concerning the genesis of our people and our collective destiny.