One year ago I took the decision to deactivate my Aryan Myth and Metahistory, Celto-Germanic Culture, Myth and History and Die Armanenschaft der Ario-Germanen blogs. I wish now to explain my reasons for doing so.
My Aryan Myth blog was the most popular of the three and I operated this from 2006 to early 2019. During that time (to my surprise) it gained a great deal of popularity in the 'white nationalist' online community, most especially in the United States. On average it would attract over 300 views a day, sometimes up to about 500-600. On occasions I seem to recall reaching 1000 but that may have been the result of a 'bot'. It was linked to many other websites and blogs. My other two blogs were less popular, especially the Armanen one which was more specialised, focusing on the subjects of symbology, runes and magick. Prior to February 2019 my Aryan Myth blog started to suddenly decline quite sharply in terms of views. This coincided at the time with a negative appraisal carried out by Renegade Broadcasting on myself, Wulf Ingessunu, Steed, Heathen Vegan and Woden's Folk in general. Also as a run up to this time I authored a number of articles which were critical of the United States and 'white nationalism'. Some of my regular subscribers became intensely annoyed by this and were disappointed that I was not writing things that they wished to hear, to reinforce their existing beliefs.
I gradually felt constrained by my blog and the expectations of some of my readers. Also over the years websites such as 'rational' wikipedia have used articles on my blogs and my comments elsewhere to attack Woden's Folk and distort their image and message although I have always made it clear that my blogs were and are independent of any organisation that I may (or may not) be affiliated or associated with. Consequently I decided to 'kill' all three blogs, making them first inaccessible to online readers and then by deleting them. During this time I created this blog and transferred across my most interesting articles from all three blogs. This has been advantageous for the following reasons: I have been able to give prominence to some of my earlier articles that subsequently became 'buried' over the best part of 13 years, especially using this current format of blog. It also gave me the opportunity to update some of my earlier work and carry out necessary editing and correction of spelling mistakes! Finally it allows some of my more obscure work, especially from my Armanen blog and to a certain extent from my Celto-Germanic one to reach a wider audience by having just a single blog.
Six months after my deactivation of my Aryan Myth blog Woden's Folk came under sustained negative media publicity thanks to an inaccurate and biased report in the Daily Telegraph. At that time this new blog received a massive upsurge in views as did all those blogs that were linked to the Woden's Folk ones. That upsurge has since died away. As a large proportion of those views were emanating from Linux operating systems I suspect that a significant number of them were those of GCHQ officers who are known to use that (fairly obscure) system.
My use of the term 'Indo-European' rather than 'Aryan' was a deliberate one as I had the intention of reaching a less narrow and partisan audience. Only time will tell if that decision was a correct one. I did on occasions use the term 'Aryan' in post titles as I knew that this would attract more attention on search engines and would help to disseminate messages that I felt were important to be read by as many like minded people as possible.
The destruction of my blogs was for me a magickal act but much of the CONTENT of those blogs remains here on this blog and in other forms of media and that is the important aspect to all of this.
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