"The Engles or Angles were the descendants of Ingwe, which we know to be right from the name Ingvaeones given to the peoples of the areas some of the English dwelt. Variants of these root-names exist all over Britain, indeed in the 'Celtic' areas such as Ireland and Scotland-Aengus, Oengus, Angus etc." (page 13)
According to the teaching of the Woden's Folk Religion and its Founder Wulf, Ingwe or Ing is the ancestor of the Angles. This teaching conforms with what we know from Tacitus's Germania about the tripartite division of the continental Germanic peoples into the Ingaevones or Ingvaeones, the Herminones and the Istaevones. I am not going to discuss today the other two tribal groupings as this subject has been covered before on my blogs. I wish to focus solely on the Ingaevones. From this North Sea coastal group came the tribes of the Frisii, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
The Ingaevones are the Ingwine, which translates as the 'Friends of Ing' and we find the term Ingwine in the Old English epic Beowulf. Pliny however writing in his Natural History lists not just three but five tribal groupings: the Ingaevones, the Istaevones, the Hermiones, the Bastarnae and the Vandili.
We know that the name or word Ing stems from the Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz, which signifies either 'man' or 'son of'. This eponymous ancestor of the Anglo-Saxons is the same deity as Freyr who is also known as Yngvi-Freyr, the divine ancestor of the Ynglinga, the dynasty which ruled ancient Sweden. Snorri Sturlusson refers to this dynasty in his Ynglingatal. Unfortunately this work is not available in an English translation that one can purchase. This is rather strange as it forms the first part of his Heimskringla, the rest of which IS available in English. Thus the only version which I have is in German. The Ynglingatal contains vital information about our Gods which supplements what is already found in Snorri's Prose Edda or Younger Edda. I find it incredulous that a portion of Heimskringla should not be published and that this contains important mythical information. Perhaps I am being overly suspicious?
In the Ynglingatal Snorri continues with his theory that the Gods were merely euhemerised human beings, a typical tactic of those Christians who wrote about the Gods and something which we should not accept on face value. Whilst Snorri was probably sympathetic towards the Gods of his ancestors we need to remember that he was still tainted with the false teachings of Christianity which sought to either demonise our Gods or to deny their existence. Ynglingatal tells us of the 'death' of both Odin and Freyr. I will now quote from the relevant passage regarding the 'death' of Freyr:
"After Njord's death Freyr received the rule. He was named the ruler of Sweden, and they paid to him now the royal taxes. He was popular with everyone and in his lucky years as rich as his father. Frey built a great temple in Uppsala. He also moved his capital city there and let his possessions and money from the country flow into it. Then began the 'wealth of Uppsala' which has remained ever since. During his time began the 'peace of Frodi', and at that time there were also fruitful years throughout all the country. The Swedes ascribed that to Freyr. Therefore he was worshipped more than the other gods because in his days due to the peace and the good years the people became richer than ever before. Gerda, the daughter of Gymir was his wife. The son that they had together was called Fjolnir. Another name for Freyr was Yngvi. The name of Yngvi a long time after that was used as a name of honour in his race and his descendants were later called Ynglinger.
"Now Freyr became sick and as his sickness became worse his men consulted amongst themselves and allowed only a few people to approach him. They built a great grave mound in which they made a door and a window. And when Freyr was dead they carried him secretly into the mound and told the Swedes that he was still alive. Thus they watched over him there for three years long and poured all the taxes into the grave mound. Through the one window the gold, through the other silver and through the third window the copper coins. So it happened that peace and fruitfulness still continued to last." (My translation into English based on the German translation of Ynglingatal by Grimnir Harbardson)
Now it is quite possible that a great human king of the Swedes called (after) Freyr did indeed exist but it is perfectly plausible that he embodied the qualities of the God or as many of us would say he was an embodiment of the archetype or was indeed an avatar. This is all possible. That does not in any way negate the reality of the separate existence of the God Himself of course. It is also possible that the Swedes having forgotten the name of their great king thus named him after one of their principal deities. This same God Yngvi-Freyr as I have said was worshipped not only by the Swedes but by the Anglo-Saxon tribes. Even the way in which the English pronounce England is not 'england' as the Germans would say but Ing-land. I believe that this is a significant folk memory that has lingered on for hundreds of years.
After reading and rereading Wulf's words on Ing I suddenly had the realisation that this Anglo-Saxon and Swedish deity was also linked to the Gothic family of Gods. I refer my readers to the excellent albeit relatively short work on the Goths by Edred Thorson, The Mysteries of the Goths. In this work Edred identifies four Gothic deities: Gauts (who I have an ancestral link to), *Teiws, *Fairguneis and remarkably *Iggws who Edred identifies as Yngvi-Freyr.
So here we have a direct link between Ing/Yngvi-Freyr and the Christ archetype of the New Testament. Indeed a further synchronicity is found in one of the titles of the Christ-the 'son of man'. This is one of the meanings of Ing. Indeed according to Tacitus He was the son of Mannus, the son of Tuisto. See Germania 2:2.
I find it remarkable that we have two points of synchronicity between Ing and Christ, the titles 'Lord' and 'son of man'. When it comes to the Bible not everything is as it seems and we must remember that this work contains plagiarisms from other cultures, notably the Aryan and the Babylonian (a fact recognised by the Founders of both Wotansvolk in the USA and Woden's Folk in England). The link between the divine ancestor of the Anglo-Saxons and the Christ may be a useful tool that we can use in order to 'reach out' to other folkish English people or people of English descent who still cling to the Christian religion. Ing may be used as a 'bridge' to bring people in to folkish Wodenism. There are other things that I would like to say about this but this is enough to reflect on for now!
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