The Re-launch of Indo-European Mythology, Religion and Spirituality

 After a hiatus of three years since my last post, I have decided to revive this blog. I now have the time needed to continue with my writing and have spent a considerable amount of time in researching various aspects of pre-Christian Indo-European religion and revising my study of Latin, primarily through some online courses through the University of Cambridge as well as a considerable amount of self-study.

The first time I encountered Latin was via an online course with the National Extension College. The course was extremely in depth, probably too in depth as little of it stuck with me. Over three years ago, I began studying Latin again from scratch, but this time at a much slower pace. I have now reached a level which is broadly comparable to A Level standard, being able to translate both ways, from Latin to English and English to Latin.

My recent studies of Latin have demonstrated to me how intricately linked the language is to Modern English. A grasp of Latin helps to improve one's understanding of English, whether this be vocabulary, etymology of English words or grammar. Latin is an incredibly logical language and studying it helps to keep one's brain active, which is very important in old age (I will shortly turn 65) and provides an excellent basis for studying other foreign languages.

One of the drivers for returning to my Latin studies was to enable me to read original Latin texts about the Germans, Celts and other ancient Indo-European peoples, without having to rely upon the translations of others! This is something which I hope to utilise in future posts on this blog.

In addition to studying Latin, I have also completed an online course, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, through Leiden University in the Netherlands, an excellent course which I recommend to all my readers. 

For mind, body and spirit purposes, I have spent the last four months engaging in Rune Yoga, using the 18 rune Futhorkh of Guido von List. For the very first time, I have been getting to grips (if you excuse the pun) with hand mudras as well as the asanas and mantras. My practice of hand mudras has proved a little problematic as my essential tremor in my left hand has gradually worsened through the years.

Please start to check this blog on a regular basis as I hope to be updating it several times a week. 

A Dream of Wotan: Wotan id est furor

 Early on Friday morning (about 6.00am on 29/5/22) I had a very vivid dream in which I appeared to be on the top of a high rise building. Why I was there, I do not know. In the distance I could see something or someone getting closer and closer. I felt a sense of alarm and a feeling of danger.

As the image drew swiftly closer, I perceived that it was a human figure on a horse. As the figure approached the building I could see clearly that the person had the face of an old man with a long white beard, riding a white horse. He was bare headed and his face appeared very angry. His face grew ever more angry and in that moment I sensed that this was none other than the German god, Wotan/Wutan/Wuotan/Wodan. I stress Wotan, not Woden or Odin. Wotan or Wuotan has a greater sense of rage than Odin, and even Woden. The root of Wotan is the German word 'wut' which has the connotations of rage, frenzy and even possession. Of course other versions of this name have the same root but 'Wotan' conveys the meaning better, and it was this name that was communicated to me during the dream. All of these names for the god stem from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic *Wodanaz, 'the lord of frenzy'.

It was unclear to me whether Wotan's rage was directed at me personally or it was simply a characteristic of the god that was being manifested. Before the god could get closer to me I was spirited away to a far away place, a place that Wotan has pre-determined for me. This was the sense of the dream. 

Wotans Krieger Volume 4: A Final Blast on the Giallarhorn

 

IN this, our fourth and final volume on the writings of Wotans Krieger, the author blends Northern European history and mythology with the increasingly dystopian realities of living and practising as a heathen in the twenty-first century. With an eye for detail, particularly in relation to his ability to decipher the intricate metaphor, psychology and linguistics concealed within our folk heritage, Wotans Krieger offers his readers another excellent insight into the mysteries that lie just beneath the surface of our reality. Chapters include A Remodelling of Future Teutonic Society and the Rejection of the State Idea; USA, Israel and the Pilgrim Fathers Complex; The Mark of the Beast and the Microchip; The Survival of the Germanic Caste System in Late-Medieval Rural England; Reverence for the Gods; A Dream of the Ancestors and the Mask of Odin, An Update; Along the Wodenist Path by Wulf Inessunu, A Review; White Shariah, A Personal View; American Odinism and the Dangers of Monotheism; A Dream of Bind Runes and The Wanderer; Smart Meters and Population Control; Smart Phones, the World Wide Web and the Mark of the Beast; The Church of England, A Capitalist Enterprise; The Use of Genetic Testing in Ancestral Research; Church of England Schools Promoting the Mark of the Beast; Vattisen Yaly, the Ethnic Religion of the Chuvash; The Cashless Society, Smartphones and the Bilderbergers; More on DNA Testing and Ancestral Research; Cheddar Man, A Tool of Propaganda; Attila, An Aryan Archetype?; Constitutional Monarchy and Democracy, A Contradiction in Terms; Biometric Bank Cards and Proposals for UK-wide and EU- wide ID; The Eye of Sauron, the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill 2018; Garma, Ragnarok and the New Aryan Man; Gimle, the Future Abode of Odin's Chosen; American Circumcision, An Indication of its Biblical Psychosis and the Pilgrim Fathers' Complex; Are the Gods Merely Archetypes?; The Relationship Between the Gothic *Iggws, Yngvi-Freyr and Kristos; Reverence for the Gods Revisited; and What Have They Done to the Earth?

> > MEET THE AUTHOR > > Wotans Krieger is now in his early-60s and started his mystical search as a child, being given a copy of the Bible by his eldest brother whilst sick with measles. As a young man in the 70s and early 80s he devoted himself to a study of the Biblical scriptures and esoteric Christian literature until the death of his German mother, a spiritualist medium, in 1989. Her death caused him to gradually reassess and reject Christianity as he spent several years exploring his maternal German heritage, studying German history, the writings of Nietzsche and teaching himself the basics of German to sit various public examinations and eventually obtaining a diploma from the Institute of Linguists. Whilst he immersed himself in Wagnerian opera he discovered the emotional pull of the Germanic gods which led him into a thorough study of mythology and the runes. In other words, he heard the 'call of the gods'. Around this time he received a mailshot from Woden's Folk and this led to his current 16-year association with them.

Coronavirus and the Atomisation of Man

Julius Evola and to a certain extent Edred Thorsson (Stephen Edred Flowers, PhD) refer to the process of atomisation in many of their works. In this modern age man is no longer viewed as a member of a community but as an individual. Of course we are all individuals but we all exist as members of a larger collective. The atomisation of man in Europe has its origins in the period of Christianisation where the Indo-European caste systems began to disintegrate and this process was completed with start of the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution overturned what was left of the caste system in rural areas and we see the beginning of the polarisation of society between the capitalist factory owner and the proletariat. This polarisation then led to the emergence of capitalism and Marxism.

Anyone who wishes to gain insight into polarisation at its most extreme need look no further than the United States of America, a country which lacks caste and race and is the epitome of degeneracy (the term used primarily but not exclusively in an Evolian sense). I would refer my readers to Evola's essay American "Civilization" (published in Hitler and the Secret Societies. A Collection of Writings, 2019, Artemis Press). The North 'American' is the ultimate example of the democratised and atomised man and this is the form of man which is now developing in western Europe. This atomisation helps to explain why the United States is beginning to implode.

My observations of the behaviour of a large minority of people during the lockdown here in England confirms my conclusions that atomisation of the average Englishman is well underway. We have seen large gatherings of demonstrators in London last weekend protesting over the death of an African-American at the hands of a police officer. Any outpouring of anger concerning that death should be exhibited in the United States, where the incident happened, not in England, a country whose capital is 4,009 miles away from Minneapolis, where the deed occurred! Indeed any such protest should not have occurred during a pandemic lockdown which has already cost over 40,000, probably over 50,000 lives! What is even more incredulous is that the police allowed the demonstration to go ahead. Instead people should have been charged with breaking the lockdown rules.


The very fact that covidiots feel that they could and should have congregated on beaches, held street parties and secret 'raves' during the pandemic demonstrates two things to me: 1. the general level of intellectual ability of the population is quite low (which can be seen by the poor grammar and diction of most Coronavirus deniers posting comments on Youtube) and 2. the complete lack of regard for the health of others. By breaking the lockdown rules people are willfully disregarding public health and potentially spreading a virus. They may feel relatively immune to the disease if they are under 50 and have no health problems but that demonstrates their ignorance (the virus can kill anyone) and utter contempt for the health and lives of other people. This latter point demonstrates my thesis that the average Englishman is now almost completely atomised, a law unto himself with no feelings of responsibility towards his fellow man.

Wotans Krieger Volume 3: Another Sip From Mimer's Well, Edited By Troy Southgate

My thanks to Troy Southgate of Black Front Press for publishing this third volume of my work. The book may be ordered here: Black Front Press

• IN the third volume of this popular series, Wotans Krieger continues on his mystical journey into the vibrant heart of Celto-Germanic spirituality and provides his readers with another enlightening selection of essays and commentaries. Topics include The Use of Music in Rituals, Donner Swings his Hammer; Thor-Indra, Protector of the Aryan Folk; Religion and the Education of the Young; Thunar as an Archetype; Early Germanic and Indo-European Settlement of Britain and Stonehenge; Polar Symbolism and the Immovable Centre in Aryan Tradition; The Aesir and the Vanir, a Reflection of the Megalithic and Battle Ax Peoples and Their Fusion; Further Reflections on the 432,000 Einheriar; Five Examples of Famous Wotan Initiates; Langridge's ROH Parsival, a Review; Out of the North He Shall Come;  The Aryan Gral as a Stone; Otto Rahn: Aryan Mystic, Scholar and Gral Seeker; Sacrifice, the Pathway to Spiritual Revelation; The Aryan Introducers of the Sun Cross into the British Isles; Vril and the Emergence of the Hidden Coming Race; Mandalas, U.F.O.s and the Coming Ragnarok-Korangar; The War Between the Aryan First and Second Castes; The Serpent as Symbol of the Aryan Priestly Caste; Yule: A Liminal Time of the Year, My Experience; A Yuletide Message from Wotans Krieger I; The Great Yearning: An Armanist Ritual, a Review; Wodenism; Aryan, Descendants of the Shining Ones; Yggdrasill, Source of Life for the Human Race; A Yultide Message from Wotans Krieger II; The Teuton and his Relationship with the Wolf; Widar, the Silent and Meditative God; Heathen Elements in Wagner's Lohengrin; An Esoteric Understanding of the Einheriar and Walhall; The Deliberate Disintegration of the Aryan Caste System; U.F.O.s, the Final Battalion; and Germanic Heathenism, Fastest Growing Religion in the UK.

My Thoughts on Tribalism and the Rejection of the Concept of the Nation State

For a number of years now I have come to gradually reject the concept of the 'nation' as a desirable organisational working model, in favour of tribalism, a far more ancient and authentic way for man to organise himself collectively. My antipathy towards the concept of the 'nation' is based upon the historical fact that pre-Christian Germanic man lived in clans and tribes, not within nation states. This held true also for the Celtic peoples. That does not deny the reality of das Volk (Old English folc, Old Norse folk) in terms of a wider human identity but in reality our pre-Christian ancestors did not think in 'national' or nationalistic terms. Indeed often a given Germanic tribe would enter into a temporary alliance with a Celtic tribe in order to fight or resist an opposing Germanic tribe. They felt no contradiction in doing so. Their loyalties first and foremost were to the clan, then to the tribe.

The Term 'nation' is to be found in the German language; die Nation, as an alternative to das Volk but it is of alien, Latin derivation (natio-'I am born') and one which was not used by 19th and 20th century folkish thinkers and ideologists. 'Volk' has a more organic and German feel than 'Nation'. Indeed I would encourage my English readers to use the term folc in preference to the alien 'nation'. Folc and Volk are related but not absolutely identical terms. A folc can of course exist without a nation state as is the case today with England.

Both Germanic and Celtic tribes consisted of smaller units called clans that had some kind of common identity, a common origin myth. The clans in turn consisted of units of interrelated families. Our ancestors for reasons of biological health married outside of their clans but only with other clans that were part of the same tribe. This helped to create and maintain a consistent biological unity, identity and avoid inbreeding.

Whilst my knowledge of German, Germanic and Celtic history made me aware that tribalism was more ancient and authentic than nationalism it did not explain my general reluctance to consider myself as a 'nationalist' and indeed I have never claimed to be one, contrary to the claims made by certain websites. It is only with my recent reading of Edred Thorsson's Re-tribalise Now! A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultural Renewal (2020, Arcana Europa Media) that I fully understood the deeper reasons for my antipathy towards nationalism and the 'nation state' concept. Why I did not understand this before I do not know but thanks to Edred's book I can now more fully articulate my feelings for the very first time.

It is no coincidence that the creation of the nation state of England coincides with the spread of Christianity. The dream of a united England was that of King Alfred of Wessex (847/849-899), commonly called by the misnomer Alfred the 'Great'. He is not as many wrongly assume, the first king of England but he did call himself the King of the Anglo-Saxons which of course in reality he wasn't. He had grandiose ideas about forming a single kingdom out of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy under him and his descendants. The first king of all England was in fact Aethelstan (c. 899-939) from 927-939, a grandson of Alfred.

The centralisation of political power goes hand in glove with the centralisation of religion. The Church pushed for the centralisation of political power in order to extend their control and primacy over the religious life of the Anglo-Saxons. Tribes were a threat to political and religious centralisation. Edred makes clear in his book that the "traditional tribal structures of ancient Europe were targeted for destruction, first by the Roman Empire and then by its successor, the Roman Catholic Church." He points out that tribal loyalties were more important to people than their loyalty to the Church.

The move from tribes to tribal confederations (Saxons and Franks) to 'nations' (and sometimes to empires) coincided with the introduction of Christianity. The christianisation of Norway and the emergence of a king of ALL Norway is one such example in addition to the English one. The temporal power of the king was used to suppress heathenism and to force the outward conversion of the king's subjects to the alien religion of Christianity. The king thus betrayed his gods, ancestors and fellow countrymen. This is why I contend that just as we reject the alien religion of Christianity we must reject the alien and Christian concept of the 'nation state'. It is not only too closely tied to Christianity but it was a willing tool in the eradication of heathen religions and a means of spreading that pernicious religion around the world. It is also responsible for two unnecessary world wars and many European ones.

In a future article I will give some suggestions as to how we may move away from the concept of 'nation' to that of tribe and clan. For the benefit of my foreign readers England has not been a 'nation state' since the Acts of Union with Scotland in 1707.

Bifrost; a Rainbow Bridge?

Karl Georg Zschaetzsch makes the interesting observation in his Atlantis. Die Urheimat der Arier (Atlantis. The Original Home of the Aryans), that the bridge linking Midgarth with Asgarth is not a rainbow bridge but consists of only three colours, red, white and black (the colours of the Prussian and old German flag):

"Nach Plato war die Bruecke hundert Fuss breit und aus weissen, schwarzen und roten Steinen erbaut. Diese Bruecke wird auch in der nordischen Ueberlieferung unter dem Namen Bifrost erwaehnt, es heisst darueber: 'Sie hat drei Farben und ist sehr stark und mit mehr Kunst und Verstand gemacht als andere Werke.' In der Erinnerung der nach dem Norden ausgewanderten Arier war die Bruecke Bifrost so schoen und farbenpraechtig wie der Regenbogen. Im Laufe der Zeit, als der richtige Sinn der Ueberlieferungen mehr und mehr in Vergessenheit geriet, wurde dann die Bruecke, die 'schoen wie der Regenbogen' war, fuer den Regenbogen selbst gehalten. In der nordischen Ueberlieferung heisst es ferner: 'Dass die Goetter eine Bruecke machten vom Himmel zur Erde, die Bifrost heisst.'" (page 24) 

My translation:

"According to Plato the bridge was a hundred feet wide and built out of white, black and red stones. This bridge is also referred to in the Nordic tradition under the name Bifrost. It is said about it: 'it has three colours and is very strong and made with more artistry and understanding than other works.' In the memory of the Aryans who emigrated to the north the bridge Bifrost was so beautiful and and gloriously colourful as the rainbow. In the course of time, when the correct meaning of the traditions were more and more forgotten, then the bridge, which was 'as beautiful as the rainbow', was mistaken for the rainbow itself. In the Nordic tradition it is further said: 'That the gods made a bridge from heaven to earth, which is called Bifrost.' "

My readers will no doubt note that the reference to Plato concerns his works on Atlantis; Timaeus and Critias. Plato does indeed tell us that the walls of Atlantis were constructed of red, white and black stones, covered with brass, tin and orichalcum. People have speculated what kind of metal orichalcum was. It may have been platinum or some other type of alloy. We are not told what kind of stone the bridges in Atlantis were constructed of so Zschaetzsch is clearly presuming that they were made of the same kind of stone as the walls. It is a reasonable hypothesis.

Re-reading the passage in Zschaetzsch's book caused me to read again the passages relating to Bifrost in both of the Eddas. In the Poetic (Elder) Edda it is referred to as Bilrost and no description is given concerning it. More detailed information is to be found in the Prose (Younger) Edda where it is called Bifrost. In Gylfaginning High says to Gangleri: "You must have seen it, maybe it is what you call the rainbow. It has three colours and great strength and is built with art and skill to a greater extent than other constructions."
(Translated by Anthony Faulkes, published by Everyman, 1987)

In modern artwork Bifrost is usually depicted as a rainbow bridge and this is no doubt due to that single reference in Gylfaginning to its appearance. Indeed the passage itself is contradictory; having only three colours and yet compared to the rainbow. The etymology of Bifrost-'swaying road to heaven' (see Dictionary of Northern Mythology, Rudolf Simek) is not particularly helpful but Simek suggests that its earlier name, Bilrost means either 'the fleetingly glimpsed rainbow' or 'the multi-coloured way' but favours the former. An alternative name in Gylfaginning 4 is Asbru; 'bridge of the Aesir'.We have to conclude that there is no clear answer to this puzzle but the reference to three colours in Gylfaginning cannot be ignored and on that basis I feel that there is merit in Zschaetzsch's argument.

Most students of Norse mythology will notice the prevalence of the number 3 in the Eddas. This was noted especially by Lionel Fanthorpe in his Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology, 2013. There are of course 3 primary colours in light: red, green and blue but this does not explain the Atlantis-Bifrost connection. White, red and black are the representative colours of the Germanic caste system (see page 40, The Indo-Europeans by Professor Jean Haudry). As I have previously noted, these 3 colours are present in the old Prussian and German flag as well as the flags of other Indo-European founded countries. Thus finding these colours in the construction of the walls of Atlantis helps to reinforce the Atlantis-Aryan connection which is the basic premise of Zschaetzsch's book.

The Coming Coronavirus Second Wave and My Premonition

After reading about reports of covidiots holding VE day street parties across the United Kingdom I decided to air my views further on the pandemic on my blog. Let me remind my readers that I was given a premonition in late 2019 in the form of a very strange dream. You can read about this on A Dream From Late 2019 Concerning Mass Death

Let me recap the essential elements of my dream! I saw piles of corpses filling the streets and police helicopters in the skies above. I knew instinctively that these people did not die of misadventure of any kind but from natural causes of some description. At the time of the dream there was no mention of Coronavirus or any epidemic in China in the news. A month or two later the whole thing kicked off in Wuhan, China. Even then I did not suspect that the virus would spread around the world and cause a global pandemic. It was only in mid March 2020 that I realised that my strange dream (which meant nothing at the time) was a premonition. Indeed there are many countries such as Ecuador and Iran where corpses are literally piling up. This has not happened yet in the United Kingdom, although the death toll is the highest in Europe. It could be argued that in the terms of more than 30,000 deaths that they are indeed 'piling up', but I believe that by the end of 2020 they will literally be piling up when the apparently inevitable second wave will have hit the United Kingdom.

The Prime Minister announced some easing of the lockdown yesterday evening, causing great confusion in the minds of everyone, not least his own Cabinet! His replacement of the 'stay at home, save lives' message with 'stay alert', a vague and ineffectual slogan, was effectively a green light for less disciplined members of our society to go ahead and do their own thing. Commuters were seen cramming together like sardines in underground trains in London. Irresponsible fools held street parties which police officers, risking their own lives had to interrupt, resulting in the arrests of many drunken fools, with many of these scum spitting and coughing in the faces of officers. NHS consultants, having witnessed death on a daily basis and the horrors of this ravaging disease first hand, took to Twitter to voice their alarm, anger and frustration. Likewise a police Chief Superintendent voiced his concern after recovering from a coma caused by the virus. This man was under 50 and in good health, thus demonstrating that anyone can be a victim.

Coronavirus is not only affecting people over the age of 50 and those with health problems but the young and healthy as well. There are plenty of examples of such cases for people to research on the internet should you question my word. Despite the fact that this is a latter day plague, the members of the David Icke fan base are out in force on social media platforms, particularly Youtube, the haven of many fools who trot out their unscientific conspiracy theories like confetti, and the largely half educated masses soak up their propaganda like a sponge. This is particularly the case with the so-called 'right'. One tends to find that such people will favour more than one conspiracy theory and often they tend to follow a similar pattern. It does not surprise me that many who contend that Coronavirus is either a 'hoax' or 'man-made' also tend to deny the reality of climate change (whether man-made or not) or believe that the likes of 'Tommy Robinson' or Melanie Shaw are being 'persecuted' by the establishment. Usually these people favour the same theories and form a veritable cohort of sorts. They are predictable, easily read psychologically and fodder for manipulation.

I will say this one more time: I agree that governments may very well attempt to use the pandemic as an opportunity to unleash yet more electronic surveillance on their populations and are complicit in the introduction of the cashless society. However, that in itself cannot be used as an argument to deny the reality of the Coronavirus or its deadly nature. In the United Kingdom about 15% of people infected with the virus have died and it is an horrific way to die. Some conspiracy theorists talk of losing their 'liberties' due to the measures imposed by the government. I see no such loss of liberties. People are not under house arrest; they have been free to go to work if necessary, go shopping for essentials, obtain medicine and medical treatment, enjoy outdoor exercise and provide care to others. Many of these people in normal circumstances would have welcomed several months at home, resting. These very same people who lecture the rest of us about the value of 'family' find that they cannot after all bear being in the presence of their 'loved ones' for any extended period of time! One sees the same thing at Yule and at funerals! Hypocrisy at its very best!

Whilst I firmly believe that my dream was a premonition I hope that I am proven wrong over the course of time. The issue of free will and fate and their interaction, as with the nornir of Norse mythology, are complicated issues. All one can do is to be faithful to the message that the gods give us as individuals. I believe that this premonition emanates from the gods. If I fail to deliver its message then I will have demonstrated disobedience to the gods. My priority is and always has been the gods. The feelings of others about the message is irrelevant. All I can do is speak the message. I am not responsible for the feelings, actions or inaction of others: they will answer for that themselves before the judgement seat of the gods. The nornir and the gods knew that I would be receptive to, and not dismiss their message. They also knew that I would speak the message without fear or favour.

Another characteristic that the naysayers on this issue generally share in common is their lack of a scientific education. I am not a scientist. It is thus reasonable for me to take note of and rely upon the best judgement of scientists and physicians. It is the height of sheer hubris for someone lacking a scientific education to venture to debate with scientists as if they were their equals. I have also observed that the vast majority of the deniers tend to be below the age of 50 and generally in good health. These are the very same people that are at the least risk (apart from children) from the virus but are quite prepared to challenge the government's measures, which are designed to keep those of us who are at greater risk, safe! They fail to see the questionable moral stance that they are taking.

There are some who believe that by flouting the government's guidelines they are showing themselves worthy of Valhalla, failing to see that their only reward will be a painful, suffocating straw death. Bravery must not be confused with foolishness and being reckless with one's life. Julius Evola took this attitude when 'braving' an air raid in Vienna in 1945, resulting in the paralysis of his lower body for the rest of his life. He literally tempted fate. This is what happens when you deliberately tempt the nornir. Our ancestors survived long enough to breed by not recklessly risking their lives to prove a foolish point. This is the behaviour expected of children and young fools.We need to be guided less by our testosterone and more by the intelligence that All-Father has given us. Unfortunately this is a lesson that the young usually must learn for themselves; the hard way. Some never learn this lesson!

Germany, South Korea and China, who all recently eased their lockdown measures are now experiencing what appears to be a second wave. The same thing can and I feel will happen in this country within the next one to two months. If this happens then the final death toll will not be in the tens of thousands but the hundreds of thousands: all because of the stupidity and the arrogance of the masses.

The Practice of Senicide, Valhalla Cliffs, Odin Ponds and the Hyperboreans

A few years ago whilst reading Origins of English History (1882) by Charles Isaac Elton I came across a curious passage relating to the practice of senicide (killing of the elderly). Senicide appears to have been carried out not only in pre-Christian times but:

"Even in comparatively modern times the Swedes and Pomeranians killed their old people in the way which was indicated in the passages quoted above". (page 91)

Pomerania is an historical religion which is situated on the southern shore of the Baltic sea in modern day Poland and Germany. The name is preserved in the modern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. A recent update of my autosomal DNA on LivingDNA has finally found * most but not all of my maternal ancestral DNA which originates from 3 main areas of German settlement in Europe; southern, northwestern and northeastern Germanic DNA. The latter pertains to the geographical area of Pomerania; so who knows, maybe my ancestors practised this custom!


There appears to have been two main forms of killing the elderly, via use of the 'family club' and jumping off the 'Valhalla cliffs' down to the 'Odin pond' below. Senicide appears to have been more common in times of famine which caused family units to make hard choices in terms of who should be allowed to survive. Mr Elton tells us that:

"One of the family clubs is said to be still preserved at a farm in East Gothland." (page 91)

Being beaten to death is obviously a far harsher form of senicide than jumping off a cliff and it appears that in the latter case this was usually a voluntary practice. An alternate and Swedish name for the Valhalla cliffs is attestupa (kin/clan precipice). Apparently ritual forms of senicide are said to have taken place during prehistoric times when the elderly were no longer able to either support themselves or assist their families. The use of the term attestupa dates back to the 17th century in Sweden and is based upon the 13th century Gautreks Saga about the legendary king Gautrek. In one part of the saga members of a particular family kill themselves by jumping off their family cliff. Whilst many modern scholars doubt the existence of these Valhalla cliffs they nevertheless persist in folklore. We should take what modern scholars have to say about the past with a pinch of salt when their research conflicts with ancient writings, folkore and oral traditions which are usually found to be quite reliable. Many modern academics are far from neutral with their research and are often guided by political instincts, often rooted in cultural Marxism.

"'Here by our home', says the hero, 'is Gillings-rock: we call it the family-cliff, because there we lessen the number of family when evil fortune comes. There all our fathers went to Odin without any stroke of disease. The old folk have free access to that happy spot, and we ought to be put to no further trouble or expense about them. The children push the father and mother from the rock, and send them with joy and gladness on their journey to Odin." (page 91) 

The existence of these Valhalla cliffs is confirmed by Pliny the Elder in his The Natural History:

"Three such cliffs in West-Gothland and Bleking still bear the latter name, and to another the remarkable statement attaches, that the people, after dances and sports, threw themselves headlong from its top into the lake, as the ancients relate of the Hyperboreans and Scythians. (iv.12) 

Sir Laurence Gomme in his Folklore as an Historical Science, 66-78 refers to some houses in Silesia and Saxony where a mallet hangs in front of the houses. In one example at Osnabrueck there is also the following inscription:

"Wer den Kindern gibt das Brodt

            And selber dabei leidet Noth,

           Den schlagt mit dieser Kettle todt."


My translation:

 "Who gives bread to the children,

            And thereby suffers need himself

           With this mallet strike him dead."

Procopius relates in his The Wars that the Heruli burned their elderly and sick after fastening them to a stack of wood and stabbing them to death. Senicide is historically confined not just to the northern Germanic world but to other parts of Europe, India and also Japan. In ancient Rome people reaching 60 were said to be thrown from a bridge or used as human sacrifices to the gods. (Old Age in the Roman World, Tim G Parkin, 2003)  Mr Parkin also tells us that in ancient Greece when the Athenians besieged the island of Keos in the Aegian Sea the inhabitants voted that all the elderly over the age of 60 should commit suicide by drinking hemlock. Another case was on the island of Sardinia where 70 year old fathers were sacrificed by their sons to the God of the Harvest, Cronus, the leader of the Titans.


The practice of senicide may be traced further back to the Hyperboreans who practised 'happy suicides:

"Their habitations be in woods and groves, where they worship the gods both by themselves and in companies and congregations. No discord know they. No sickness are they acquainted with. They die only when they have lived long enough: for when the aged have made good cheere, and anoynted their bodies with sweet ointments, they leape off a certain rocke into the sea. This kind of sepulture is of all others the most happie." (The Hyperboreans, Hecataeus, quoted by Elton, page 90)

It is clear that in the case of the Hyperboreans senicide was voluntary and entered into as a means of avoiding age-related sickness or when the elderly had finally tired of life. The practice was also clearly ritualistic and the method a forerunner of the so-called Valhalla cliffs and Odin ponds. Who were these 'Hyperboreans'? The ancients believed that they were a race of 'giants' who lived 'beyond the north wind.'

"Behind the Rhipoean hills and beyond the North Pole there is a blessed and happie people, if we may believe it, whom they call Hyperboreans, who live exceeding long, and many fables and strange wonders are reported of them. In this tract are supposed to be two points or poles about which the world turneth about, and the verie ends of the heaven's revolution. For six months together they have one entire day, and night as longe, when the sun is cleane turned from them. Once in the year, namely, at our midsummer, when the Sun entereth Cancer, the Sun riseth with them, and once likewise it setteth, even in mid-winter with us, when the Sun entereth Capricorn. The countrie is open upon the Sun, of a blissful and pleasant temperature, void of all noisome wind and hurtful aire." (The Hyperboreans, Hecateus, quoted by Elton, page 90)  

It is clear that these Hyperboreans resided in the area of the Arctic at a time when the climate was temperate and the area covered by forests and rich in wildlife. This was the original home of the Proto-Indo-Europeans (the Aryans) before their dispersal. (See The Arctic Home in the Vedas, 1903 by B.G. Tilak) Echoes of this original Hyperborean arctic home are to be found in the recorded mythologies of many of the Indo-European peoples, including the Vedas and the Avesta. The whole subject of Hyperborea and its place in prehistory and geography will be dealt with in far more detail in a future essay (the gods willing!).


Returning to the subjects of the Valhalla cliffs and the Odin ponds:

"The situation of several of these 'Valhalla Cliffs' is still well known in Sweden. The lakes, which stretch below, were called 'Valhalla-meres' or 'Odin-ponds'. 'The old people, after dances and sports, threw themselves into the lake, as the ancients related of the Hyperboreans': but if an old Norseman became too frail to travel to the cliff, his kinsmen would save him the disgrace of 'dying like a cow in the straw', and would beat him to death with 'the family-club'. Similar stories are told of the Heruli in the dark forests of Poland'; and among the Prussians 'all the daughters except one were destroyed in infancy or sold, and the aged and infirm, the sick and the deformed, were unhesitatingly put to death': practices as remote from the poetry of the Greek description as from the reverence for the parents' authority which might have perhaps been expected from descendants of 'the Aryan household.'" (page 92)

Mr Elton quotes an example of the brutal practice of clubbing from  Conversion of the Slavs, Maclear where:

"A Count Schulenberg rescued an old man who was being beaten to death by his sons at a place called Jammerholz, or 'woeful wood'; and the intended victim lived as a the Count's hall-porter for twenty years after his rescue. A Countess of Mansfeld, in the 14th century, is said to have saved the life of an old man on the Lueneberg Heath under similar circumstances." (p.92) 

Here in England it was a common practice that when the old were lying on their death beds, in order to save them from any unnecessary suffering the family physician would be called for and the patient would be administered a 'little something' to 'help them on their way'. Occasionally a pillow would be laid gently over their head as an alternative.





* This is due to their recent 'German Project' which involved collecting and expanding their continental Germanic DNA database. I will expect my German DNA to increase in percentages as their database expands.

Further Thoughts on Coronavirus and the Lockdown

The Prime Minister is due to chair a meeting with his cabinet this afternoon regarding a potential easing of certain aspects of the lockdown. Some commentators anticipate that some lifting of restrictions will occur as early as next week. If this were to happen then this would in my opinion be a grave mistake, grave being the operative word. The government has been criticised internationally for introducing the lockdown too late. It will compound this error further if it decides to end or ease the lockdown too early.

The number of new cases being reported in the United Kingdom is still in the thousands and the death toll has started to increase again. Indeed there were 6111 new cases and 649 more deaths reported yesterday. These should be taken as warning signals by the government but it is clear that they have other priorities as they face pressure from big business-their paymasters to lift the lockdown. Added to this is the pressure that they are facing from their electorate who hypocritically criticised the government in February and March for their inaction and are now complaining about being under 'house arrest'! In situations like this I can almost pity the Prime Minister as whatever decision he takes will be unpopular in some quarters.

For the benefit of my many international readers no one is under 'house arrest' in the United Kingdom. People are free to travel to work, to go shopping, to exercise or attend medical appointments. What is forbidden is taking unnecessary journeys outside of these guidelines and gathering in groups of more than two people who do not share the same household. Social distancing of being at least 6ft apart is encouraged both outside and in shops. Whenever I have needed to walk to the shops or to town I have encountered no problems with the police.

Prior to the lockdown being implemented I started to decrease my use of public transport as buses are a hotbed of contamination, not just from Coronavirus but from colds, flu and other viruses with people coughing and spluttering and not placing their hand in front of their mouth. I started to walk to my part time job there and back twice a day, taking me over 2 hours a day, despite suffering from arthritis in my knees. I built up a certain amount of fitness in preparation for not using the buses at all. I also started to wear a face mask and practiced social distancing before the public were told to do this. Thus far this has kept me contamination free.

I have noticed that on social media platforms such as Youtube there are posters advocating the breaking of the lockdown rules which in itself is an incitement to break the law with some idiots boasting that they are coming and going as they please, visiting people that they do not live with. Such people genuinely deserve to be infected with this virus but sadly they will infect other innocent people in the process.

I am one of the few commentators in the folkish movement who still believes that the Coronavirus pandemic is genuine. Many others are attempting to deny the reality of the virus, claiming that it is either a 'hoax' or greatly exaggerated. Some attempt to interpret the statistics (albeit with a biased intention) or will just simply venture forth their worthless and unsubstantiated opinions without even bothering to refer to statistical evidence. Take this from someone who has had inside knowledge over the decades: government statistics are never interpreted in a vacuum. They are always interpreted with a biased intention. It is the old concept of is the 'glass half full' or 'half empty', to put the matter in simplistic terms. To genuinely interpret statistics we must do so as far as we can without a biased intention. Instead the majority of people will approach the interpretation of statistics with an intention of 'proving' their pet theory. This is subjective and in many ways natural and common place but it is not objective or scientific.

Whilst I believe that this virus is real and dangerous I DO believe that the government of both this country and those of other countries will use the present crisis to extend further the surveillance state and hasten the introduction of the cashless society. These two things do not and should not infer that the pandemic is a hoax but governments, global capitalists and banks have their own agenda on the back of this. Shops are encouraging people to pay without using cash and governments encouraging their populations to 'download the app' are examples of this. Thankfully I do not and never have owned a 'smart' phone and I have no intention of ever having one. Apart from the obvious concerns about privacy and state surveillance I would not have the capability of using one. I am a technophobe, brought into the world in the era of black and white television, 2 channels and cars with starting handles. I suffer from essential tremors in my hands for which I take medication and it now takes me about 10 minutes to type and send a text message. The other day it took me about 2 hours to work out how to switch my mobile phone with big buttons on, despite having it for several years!

For years now I have argued that the introduction of the 'smart' phone is an aspect of the 'mark of the beast' referred to in Revelation 13:16-17:

"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."  (Authorised King James Version)

I reiterate that the 'smart phone' is an aspect of the mark of the beast but it is not the final version as the real mark will be contained within the body of a person. This is the first stage. There have been suggestions by some that unless one has a  'smart' phone and downloads the 'app' one may not be able to continue with going about one's usual everyday life. I do not believe this. Apart from the fact that not everybody has a  'smart' phone it is too early at this stage for any western government to attempt to introduce any such draconian measures as people will simply not co-operate. However this is a useful opportunity for governments to measure the compliance of a population in preparation for further conditioning (I use the term in the sense of mass suggestion, a form of hypnosis).

Whilst I am fully aware of the agenda of governments, global capitalists and banks I must remind my readers of my position on the virus, that I believe that it is real and deadly, especially for those with certain health problems (e.g. asthma) and those over the age of 50. Let me quote some statistics for you at this juncture! The potential for death from Coronavirus at the age of 50 is 20 times that of a 20 year old, 8 times that of a 30 year old and 3 times that of a 40 year old. At age 60 the death rate is 2.5 times that of  50 year old, 8 times that of a 40 year old, over 20 times that of a  30 year old and over 72 times that of a 20 year old! See: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/04/09/adjusting- covid-19-expectations-to-the-age-profile-of-deaths/ I must point out that these are global statistics and of course will vary from one country to another.

My readers may recall that the World Health Organisation encouraged several months ago that anyone over the age of 60 should shield themselves and avoid public places. However the government of the United Kingdom ignored this advice and focused purely on people over 70. They did so not for any scientific or medical reasons but because many people in their 50s and to a lesser degree in their 60s, still work and their objective was safeguarding the economy first, not people. In the light of this any easing of the lockdown that may take place next week will not be for the benefit of the public but for the safeguarding of the wealth of the 1%. However the 99% have since 2008 been conditioned by the government into believing that it is THEY who are responsible for reimbursing any lost wealth of the 1%. That strategy will continue because the majority of the people are extremely easy to manipulate, both individually and collectively. This is achieved through the indirect use of hypnosis and suggestion via television, the internet and newspapers.

As my readers may recall I recently reported on a dream that I had in late 2019 prior to the onset of the Coronavisus epidemic in China. A Dream from Late 2019 Concerning Mass Deaths I sincerely believe that this was a premonition given to me by the gods concerning the impending pandemic. I saw masses of bodies piled up in the street, people dead not from misadventure but due to 'natural causes' and helicopters in the sky above. This dream meant absolutely nothing at the time but from its content and timing this was clearly a premonition. The worst my dear readers is yet to come!

If the lockdown is lifted or even eased too soon then we will inevitably experience a second and more deadly 'wave' in September, the beginning of the new school year and the winter half of the year when the NHS is at its busiest. It is estimated that there are over 12 different strains of Coronavirus with one unique to this country. See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8288189/At-12-different-strains-coronavirus-circulating-UK-March.html As mentioned months ago by scientists, this virus is mutating and there is thus no guarantee that a person cannot be infected more than once. There is therefore no guaranteed immunity.

Whilst it is only a film I would encourage my readers to obtain a copy of the 1964 film, The Masque of the Red Death, starring Vincent Price, based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. So dear readers if you feel so inclined, then 'party on': the Grim Reaper awaits!

The Germanic Ethnicity of Isolde, the Goddess Isa and Iceland

What follows is a short older essay from my former Celto-Germanic Culture, Myth and History blog:

In my researches into Germanic mythology I occasionally find references to a rather obscure Germanic Goddess called Isa. Isa as we know is the name of the 11th rune of the Elder Futhark, also known as Is in the Anglo-Saxon Futhork, Iss in the Scandinavian Futharks and Is in the Armanen Futhork.

There is a theory that this Goddess lends her name to Iceland or Island. "Rassmann identifies Island as derived from Isa, a goddess of the under-world, probably the same as Holda, and not as Iceland." (Legends of the Wagner Drama by Jessie L. Weston) As a female personal name it is Teutonic and of ancient origin, signifying aristocratic, strong willed, a ruler. The element of strength is brought out in the hard, icy and cold nature of the Isa rune.

It is generally considered that due to the Celtic location and time frame of the Tristan and Isolde legend that Isolde was an Irish Celtic princess. However this is a mistake albeit an understandable one. During the 9th century CE it was a Viking and not an Irish king that held court in Dublin and we should not forget the significant Scandinavian and thus Germanic heritage of Ireland from the 9th and 10th centuries.

German scholars, according to Jessie L. Watson derive Isolde's name from Iswalt or Iswalda (Eis-walterin=ruler of the ice). The earliest form of the Isolde name is Isalde (Wolfram von Eschenbach). Legends always represent her as fair haired-'die lichte' as opposed to the rival dark-haired Isolde. She concludes that the Germanic forms of the name have more in common than the Kymric Essylt.

It is also interesting to consider that in the German Nibelungenlied Brunhild is represented as the queen of Iceland and her very nature is hard, icy and strong-willed. She dwelt in her fortress Isenstein ('Ice rock') and was a beautiful woman of formidable strength and fortitude. Could it be that the two distinct legendary figures of Isolde and Brunhild originally derive from a common Germanic source?

The Revelation of Isais, a New Translation by Wotans Krieger

There is already a translation of Die Isais Offenbarung by the Thule Temple on the internet but unfortunately it is incomplete and not accurately translated in my opinion. In view of the close association between the revelation of Isais and the prophecies contained within the Book of Sajaha I feel it is necessary to give a complete and accurate translation. I am at a loss to know why they have not completed their translation. The reader will undoubtedly find some stylistic differences between my translation and theirs-this is normal in the world of translation and is not in itself indicative of error! I have chosen to retain the poetic style of the original German. By contrast the Thule Temple have gone down a more literal route: each to his own! I have retained the numbering system used in the original.

1. Truly I speak to your hearing. I give picture to your face; speak knowledge and wisdom, all encompassing, from the beginning of the beginning to the end of the end.

2. Speak not in allegory or symbol, not by circumventing word, clearly I announce what was, what is and what may be.

3. Human beings, because they are connected to the earth are consecrated to die-and immortal at the same time: star children, heavenly born-many thousands of times older than the world here.

4. Sons of the light force and daughters of splendour, dwellers of heaven, lost in the dark, alive in the light-and yet succumbed to the shadow, eternal-and yet not free from dying.

5. Wanderer over the ridges of the worlds, newly born on the world of this side-destined again for the other side. Children of the gods but not like the gods. There is much more to be said about human beings: old is their race-young is their world.

6. Unborn is the human being, since the beginning of the beginning-it will always be.

7.  Before the beginning was, everything was given from before eternity; there was neither space nor time. Unconscious, without life, lay the beings all there, before All-father took pity on them, created measurable time, created also measurable spaces, that can be walked through: the eternal heavenly worlds.

8. The seeds of all beings sank into it; eternity emerged out of pre-eternity, beginning from pre-beginning.

9. All-father leaned down to care for the beings, giving vital force, kindling souls, awakening spirits. The new heavenly world awoke to life and weaving. The beings recognised each other according to their kind:

10. There were those who later became human, there were those who became animals, there were those who were like green plants and there were spirits of demons.

11. And yet not everything as the earth knows today escaped from the heavenly worlds-that at the same time is similar and dissimilar.

12. What now lives in the earthly originated in the kingdom of heaven, once fleeing All-father's light, strange shadows sought after-erring and unsuspecting.

13. Because a prince of shadows rose up against the worlds of heaven, to defy All-father. This prince of shadows has set up a kingdom of shadows- far from the heavens: dark hell.

14. Endless void stretches in between-that none could reconcile.

15. In the middle of it, between dark and light, mighty spirits built Valhalla. All-father's gentle goddesses and bold gods live there.

16. There is continual fighting between them and hell.

17. Numerous beings however fell away from the heavenly worlds. Unsuspectingly they wanted to look at hell. Later out of these, there became people.

18. All of them sunk into powerlessness, forgetting their own names, forgetting everything that was.

19. For these fallen All-father freshly created a new world entity: this side of the realm of earth with the firmament of stars, in order that it would make the rebirth of the lost multitudes possible, they were offered a path to earthly death, and after that a gate to the heavenly return.

20. Allfather gave the wide arc* to the worlds of beyond, to all of decayed humanity; the bridge for a happy return.

21. I call you all now world entities, well created by All-father: above all the heavenly world of eternal light, All-father's kingdom, the original home of all beings.

22. I will name next the all-encompassing founding country-there are no world entities which it does not encompass, this side as well as the other side of the great mirror, as the boundary between them is called. Also hell is in it, the dark, horrible; blood-burning revulsion of endless torture. In the middle of Greenland,* Valhalla has its place, magnificent fortress.

23. The world of this side also floats in Greenland, with the earth and the shining stars.

24. There is also an otherworldly multi-coloured arc which spans from close to heaven down to hell. The worlds over there are very numerous, to be walked through by people after earthly death.

25. On the edge of Greenland, unspeakably distant, there is an eerie kingdom: the grey canal of the demons; often terrible but also silent.

26. There are more sleeping worlds in Greenland-

27. and also the sunken silent valley. The earth's inhabitants come from there, first like seedlings, to roam this world, finally to win the return home.

28. Truly I speak, speak knowledge and wisdom, teach you knowledge and the way with a clear word: in the kingdom of heaven lives All-father with his faithful. But in hell dwells the dark prince of shadows, the depraved one, the spoiler: Schaddain is his name. Bright heroes reign in Valhalla, the gods with their wives.

29. Ishtar * has the right of hospitality with them, All-father's messenger. The Einherjar go in and out there, the double immortals. Some of these I call my siblings.

30. All humans have come into the world of this side *, with them animals and plants, in order to wander through the earth world. The wide arc * of the other worlds opens its way home into the kingdom of heaven after their earthly death; everyone chooses his path there.

31. In the realm of the founding land everyone can meet: good and evil, any kind. Isais who teaches you has her authority there.

32. At night, in sleep your spirit rises out of the body, in order to roam the worlds of sleep. Some meet there, passing time with each other.

33. Many spirits also strive to reach the bright day. Vibration from the hereafter may speak to him, to give a message. But I warn: often this is deception.

34. Attention, human beings, earth born! And look: here does not lie the beginning. Listen! Truly I speak to you and in a clear tone, give you advice.

35. War has been relentless in the course of time, since Schaddain rose up against All-father. Find place, seize space where the sword of the hero is needed, where bold action is required.

36. Know the place which is yours. Who hesitates, he tolerates-who tolerates lets the powers of evil prevail.

37. Gently offer greetings to the meek, but fling battle cries against the evil one. Know love in its place-like the hour of the spear.

38. Feel compassionately, where the claws of distress tear a suffering. But look hard into the eyes of those who wanted to abuse this.

39. Strike out-don't hesitate-where a dark cloud descends. A warrior is where the rage of war prevails. Lovers are at the home hearth.

40. Wandering on earth is divided into two, how bright is the day and dark the night. Never imagine that there is only one of the two.

41. Truly I speak, want to show you further, want to show you what is: Schaddain plagues cities and countries, seas and gorges, deserts and forests, meadows and mountains of the earth world. He breaks open the sources of torment, he soaks through the history of the peoples with blood, thereby acting as a god.

42. Many faced * is the grimace of evil, which gapes everywhere out of the cracks of the earth, many headed are its tearing jaws. No sword stroke alone is capable of splitting them all.

43. Seas of flame will roar over the countries for some time before the worm passes. Malice nourishes the mischief's belly, making the thrower of shadows powerful.

44. Who then would command the horror to stop so long as the jug of clearing water does not open? Persevere! You should stand ready through all times, until the hour of the victorious sword is fulfilled. Then the flag will fly high in the storm of the final battle when the spurt from the water jug will wet the world.

45. Far away still is the day, is the hour of victory. Sweeping clouds tower by to spit lightning.

46. Kingdom of light, oh kingdom of light, the ship's keel breaks, debris only lands on the shore of grief. Pick up the pieces, carefully guard them for a new work: once there was a ship of victory. When the ray blows the sail-from the next world it comes through Ilu's sun, invisible-then is the time.

47. Peer through the world of stars, look up to the head of the bull. He brings the lance. Measure the distance from the stars: from the head of the bull to the water jug. Under the middle hides the black- purple stone.

48. Black stone, powerful force. Isais once recovered it from the grey places of the mud-hole of hell, outwitting the prince of the shadows who had it stolen from Valhalla.

49. For this Isais used the trick, cut her hair the length of an ell and put on boy's clothing, in order to deceive Schaddain's guards. Thus she penetrated a mud-hole pool in hell, in order to save the black-purple stone:

50. Powerful is its force, calling out the light from the water jug. Hail to the knowing ones! Hail to the wise ones who obey what is advised. They will be effective.

51. So women's hair binds magical power. It captures vibrations from the other world into the world of this side. The longer it wallows there in equal measure the more power it can win. But it does not remain unthreatened in the dark age because Schaddain longs to do harm to it.

52. Flowing spirits, magical vibratory power, sometimes choose to hoard themselves in the long hair of  the maiden. It is usually good, contributes a great deal, giving capability to effect the will. Those in the courtyard and at the hearth, all in the light, last a long time, truly very long.

53. But those who openly fight against the darkness had better shorten it, as Isais had done on the journey to hell.

54. Where the vibration of darkness prevails, then some of these nest in the hair of magically active women if these are longer than necessary; but the measure of half an ell is necessary.

55. Powerful is the man in battle with the sword and the strength of his will, however the woman operates magically.

56. Recognise the sign that heaven gives you. The called one feels it, the elect understand it, they call (or think) to me:

Out of the light of the moon,

          Out of the dark of the night,

          will you come, sister Isai',

         you who always saw me,

         you who always have my thoughts.       


57. Black appears the stone-and yet it is light. A part of primeval material *-unspeakably strong. It leads the force of man, it rejuvenates the style of woman, makes Valhalla's army effective.

58. It bestows victory on the people of its homeland, certainly lasting a thousand years. The power lies in Wodin's mountain. It hears the sound of voices, the chosen tongue, it does not like to suffer strange ones. It is not aware-and yet does the same thing; the black-purple stone is indeed the bright power of life. I, Isais, the maid, that which I chose for you, that which I speak to you of, give the stone to your tribe.

59. Who kisses Isais's mouth, neck and hair, he will be kissed again by the spirit of Isais. I hear the true-but my claw beats the false ones.

60. So I show myself to you, in order that you can form an image-be it out of wood, ore or stone. I enter into one of those, in order to reign as sister among the true.

61. But to the false ones I come as a panther.

62. I am close to you, I am with your tribe-to the year, hour and day-until the time is fulfilled.

63. When Ishtar has opened the glass lid of the water jug and young light shines effectively-then the change draws near. Then Isais will have accomplished her work for the age; henceforth Ishtar has fulfilled her office.

64. Then you should kiss the mouth, eyes and hair of  Ishtar, you should serve the purpose of the mighty ones of light, but do not forget Isais.

65. Some however, who are the bravest, they may remain at my side.

66. Out of the shine of the moonlight I call to you. Out of the light of the moon, so they call me. Such should be those who are not afraid of the worst and do not shy away from the most difficult things, who renounce peace and happiness, because the struggle does not end yet in Greenland. To them I will no longer be just a sister, but bride and wife.

67.  Not until everything is fulfilled, that All-father wants, when the golden ages rises over the countries of the earth and in the hearts of all peoples, only then will the people alone be the sign of the All-father. This hour is far, far is the way. The night of devastation prevails for a long time, and Schaddain roars unrestrained.

68. Daughters of the stars and sons of heaven, All-father's friends, suffering of the shadow power: high rises the will, so knowledge weaves there. Certain is the victor since time eternal. From the head of the bull, help comes to you in tribulation and distress, of the same kind of weapon.

69. Children of the bull, Isais's sisters and brothers, the best of the tribes here: stay away from alien blood, pure remains the tribe, which Isais and Ishtar love, which is predetermined from All-father's word.

70. Heavenly streams of light permeate the land here, called, came, held, bound by the band of the black stone.

71. At the foot of this mountain, deeply hidden in the rock, it shall rest until the hour of the age, until Wodin seizes word and deed there.

72. Therefore you should pass on Isais's kiss through all the families of the holy tribe; nothing divides the alliance. I speak this to you in clear words, not my symbols, say precisely: the childhood in All-father remains always true and the siblinghood mine.

73. And also pay attention to the brother in the bull. In Greenland's expanses, near Valhalla, Malok, the brave, spreads out his wings. He is Isais's faithful warrior, the protector who hurried on the dangerous journey into the fortresses of hell, who preserved me from the worst, who rescued me from Schaddain's henchmen.

74. But I warn, call on Malok alone when in greatest need, and this is no different than (calling on) my name, though terrible, he is otherwise easy. I tell you now, because he resembles the head of a bull, the winged warrior, the strong one, the bold one, the vastly mighty-and to him alone this applies to.

75. No one should erect a statue of Molok, without also that of Isais. Otherwise he can come differently than you would want to call him. Restrained Malok's anger is directed to the right, desired in my name and image.

76. Malok has many brothers and some sisters, powerful beings, who roam the hereafter, working magical arts and directing fighting skills. The tribes of the peoples often call them their gods or demons.

77. Your goddess, however, is called Ishtar, All-father's radiant messenger; and your secret companion: Isais. You will see her when the victory battle is fought, to celebrate with a long wavy head of hair, before I shorten it again to continue fighting. I say this because you always have to know how to recognise my image. How you think it-so I recognise myself.

78. Because all thoughts are seen in Greenland, understandable message, clearly recognisable by pictures.

79. And note again, that Malok can become wild violence if Isais's reins should tear through careless human acts. Always give him honour, the solitary warrior-he was always faithful-but know: Malok cannot understand human feelings. So he who calls on him in error bears the guilt himself.

80. I speak to you, what you need to know. Mark everything well! Nothing is to be neglected: allow three flames to burn at every time, where perhaps an image of Malok stands next to mine.

81. I have already given you the high secret of the spear and the mirror. You should keep it, never however put it down in writing, keep it in your head.

82. You wander now between the world entities, between Greenland and the solid earth, like me. Far I weave, I am the bond of your striving. Mostly invisible-but always at your side.

83. Ancients knew, carved the runes, kept All-father's word. Until strange winds blew the poisonous dust into the thoughts of the people, until evil seeds rose up everywhere among the peoples.

84. Awaken the memory, that lay long as if sleeping, let the new ray of an old sun shine: inner sun, internal light. Traditionally handed down but eternally young: towering spirit of a high race. The ancestors look from over there.

85. Ancients knew, carved the runes, bore witness well, knowledgeably revealing many things that had been a long time ago.

86. Three tribes joined themselves to the people: land born, sea born and air born they were. The first sprouted from the old ground, the second sailed from afar over the sea, the third came from Sunland, from high towers near the clouds. They were all united in an earlier time in Thale, the holy island. Contemplating it, they reunited anew, led by All-father. Many had forgotten, some did not see through it: on people it had always been, since ancient times: divided by fate-skillfully reunited.

87. First dividing fate was a raging fire-everywhere, burning the earth, scorching the grass, evaporating the fresh water, consuming the marrow* of the peoples.

88. Second dividing fate was a falling flood-everywhere showering, swirling, foaming waves, bursting out of the clouds, raging out of rivers and seas, sinking lands, engulfing the peoples.

89. Third dividing fate came with an icy grip: rumbling giants without mercy; the people had to flee.

90. Three dividing fates, divided a people into three. They went apart-again they found each other.

91. Ishtar was sent to them- at the behest of the All-father, in order to unite again the midnight people, the primeval lords of the holy island.

92. Because the light of the water jug needs load-bearing strength, when it becomes invisible it will pour down on the human races.

93. Then shall the resolute ones be reunited in the Golden Age, certainly for a thousand years, in order that they change the light of the water jug into internal gold.

94. Ishtar and Isais are both called from All-father's word, each one in their own way, they lovingly lead the heroes.

95. Truly I speak, to quench the thirst for knowledge out of the well of understanding: sometimes the All-father sent wise ones to the people: sent also Ishtar once into the kingdom of the Great King, who ruled the earth from all the winds. Bel was the name of his country.

96. He had it written down, the high mighty king, as it was reproduced from the mouth of the seeress. Up to Thale, to the holy island, the great king announced the message of the goddess in the times of golden knowledge.

97. In the times thereafter the curse of darkness approached the people as the cruel servants of Schaddain chose it and named it after their god. Clouds of hateful darkness darkened the stars, blood rush awakened, to the horror of the peoples. Time of darkness, malice of endeavour, evil of the deed: the brood of Schaddain spread out widely and won space. The furrows of the earth became channels of blood; scarcely anymore did one love the other.

98. All-father himself was slaughtered as a  living messenger by the servants of the dark horror.

99. Because it was All-father as All-Krist himself. The hatred of darkness raged against him.

100. Power of light martyred, the truth crushed, the liberators bound-a terrible time.

101. Isais was on the lookout from Greenland for unyielding brave heroes. Searching she saw the resolute tribe, to whose best she had committed herself.

102. On the whole there are few to be seen and also a  small number out of that.

103. Those whom I recognised out of the Greenlandish mirror: the holy flock, you are my heart. To you it is spoken. Hold high the elect, do not ignore the cure.

104.  No other race than yours can rule. The floating eagle has gained knowledge, alone above the heights of the clouds.

105. Silently consider, quietly comprehend, knowingly proceed: this is what the wise man does. Questions of the day find answers at night if the ancestors are calmly engaged by the rising spirit.

106. A man's sword raised for battle, is of two types: ore on the outside and will on the inside. Never the professional, the clever and mature tarry, who can see the path of fate from afar.

107. Those who recognise themselves also know the course of fate, recognise their own destiny. Those who do not know, easily stumble.

108. Working is a highly meaningful act, whether small or large. Seeing the work flourish, you recognise yourself in it, draw joy from it and always new strength.

109. Pay attention! A lot of what I tell you is not from me alone, I stand in All-father's duty, his word is uppermost, only for that do I strive.

110. It is known that Ishtar also hears you. She is a messenger to him. Therefore give her honour, image and place in your hearts. In the days before the time of fulfillment she herself may yet speak to you if All-father wills it. Therefore keep clear the appropriate space.

111. Then Ishtar creates a holy pillar, erected towards heaven, when the time of the water jug is near; when the last battle has been victoriously fought and the battlefield has been cleared of all traces of horror.

112. Then pass the band from me to Ishtar, then kiss Ishtar's eyes, lips and locks. Her mild light shines on the coming peace-as before the hot struggle of Isais's embers.

113. What is said to you out of Isais's mouth: applies only to you, not all people, not all nations. Weigh yourself, what needs to be known of all of that: All-father's overseeing of the world event, All-father's care, All-father in all beings acting there.

114. Ishtar and Isais: they are especially for you. Not everyone can understand what is required here. Don't let the weak grasp it.

115. The inhabitants of the earth are different, what is pious for them, what their work can be, in what way they work is different. Knowing helps everyone to find his own; because each has meaning and place according to their kind.

116. Schaddain's blood-steaming claw wants to confuse. The lie is his own, he teaches resentment, stokes envy from one to the other.

117. Listen to all voices, pay attention to every sign. Schaddain's servants throw falsehood into the world. Exercise caution, do not forget: the crowd of people here is unclean, having fallen away from All-father's home.

118. Great is the evil, before the spout from the water jug has it cleared up; deceit manifold, betrayal frequent, numerous treacherous people inhabit this world.

119. Innocent alone are the animals of the earth, the fish of the water, the birds of the air and everything that crawls, jumps and runs. Innocent also are the green plants. All of these are therefore sacred.

120. Isais, me, is close to the feline, large and small. Such as those stood in battle with me against the forces of evil on Greenland's shores. In the cat family you honour also Isais's kind, the vibrations of both spirits are related.

121. Who is the bravest among the heroes? It is he who travels through the hereafter, through Greenland's realms, in All-father's strength, in loyal faith, the inner gaze directed to the heavenly kingdom.

122. Eternal life is promised there and is truly unbreakably given.  Note it well: there is no death! To die means to start, to wander again through different world structures. Nothing scares you, nothing causes you fear.

123. The light shines forever, it is living light; and a portion of it is firmly sunk into all of you.

124. What is human on earth, or animals and also green plants: it lives forever. Preserve this blessed knowledge.

125. High princes will find themselves holy on the mountain of the gathering, to rule wisely. Goddesses and gods provide them with protection, as these spirits were once called by men; but in truth they are angelic beings.

126. Under the world mountain's secret shield, invisible to the eyes of people and not tied to a single place, stands the visible mountain of tangible rock, which man prepares as a holy place. Where this particular mountain rises to the clouds, there you will meet Isais.

127. And here shall the second lapis...(missing verse)

128. From there the top of the world tree towers up: no one can see it with an earthly eye-and yet it is there.

129. Holy sites, holy groves, temples without walls: there All-father's breath breathes on the visitor. There the seeker will find, will feel the breath of heaven.

130. That is the end, when the world of earth together with the vast firmament of stars pass away-only the kingdom of heaven and the mud-hole of hell continue to exist. And no one changes their place anymore.

131. That is the end: when everything comes home to the beginning. That is the end: when all the paths of wandering are fulfilled, when each and everyone has passed through the gate, when every work has been accomplished.

132. Then everyone enjoys blessed peace, far from all suffering, escaping all torment, all tears are dried, everything has happily regained the right of home in All-father's kingdom.

133. That is the end-the real beginning again. Then the light shines out of the light on all beings-the fulfillment of all paths. The time is still far away.

134. This spoke Isais to you, I, Greenland's maid. The elect can grasp it.


*20 I have translated 'Den weiten Bogen' as 'wide arc', its literal translation but the context hints heavily that this is the rainbow bridge.

*22 As in the Book of Sajaha, 'Greenland' is clearly an otherworldly place and is also referred to in the Book of Sajaha.

*29 I have translated 'Istara' has 'Ishtar' and appears to be cognate with Ostara and Eostre, the goddess of Easter.

*30a 'Diesseits' literally means 'this side'. I have translated the term as the 'world of this side' in order that it makes sense in English. The 'world of this side' is also commonly used in the Book of Sajaha. There are quite a few similarities in the choice of terminology used in both of these works.

*30b 'The wide arc' is of course the rainbow bridge.

* 'Vielgesichtig' literally means 'many' or 'multi-faced'. I have resisted the temptation to translate this as 'multifaceted' as this would detract from the almost poetic nature of the work.

*57 Some words and phrases just do not translate well into English. I am trying to remain as close to the German transliteration as possible but some words just do not exist-neither in English nor even in the German language. There is a tendency in German esoteric writings for new words and phrases to be created to explain a difficult concept. One sees this particularly in the writings of Guido von List. All we can do as translators is attempt to enter the mind of the author! I have thus translated the non-existent word 'Urstoffteil'- literally (when deconstructing the elements of the word) 'primeval material part' as 'part of primeval material'.

*87 'Mark' may be translated as 'marrow', 'march' or 'borderland'.