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An independent publishing & educational organization preserving & advancing the native Germanic faith of Sedianism & the American folcsida, serving as a hearth of study & cultural continuity shaping the spiritual, mental, emotional, & physical self.
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Forwarded from BC Neanderthal Mindset
Sachsenhain (the wood of the Saxons):
A memorial, erected in 1935, for the 4500 pagan Saxons murdered by christian Franks under Charlemagne for refusing to convert and join his empire.
Each stone represents a massacred Saxon.

This makes me angry and sorrowful for our fallen brethren for refusal to give up their ways to the “religion of love”.
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I am the bear. I forge my own path. My wyrd is fully fixed. I am sometimes gentle and playful; other times walking death. At times I hibernate; to gain strength. Other times, I walk forward, and when I do, I change, adapt, overcome; succeeding through sheer willpower, strength, and unwavering ferocity. When the gods compel, I listen. I play the long game. The Wódenic path. The power of Þunor. The majesty of Seaxnēat-Fréa. When the choice is clear, others move aside. I am the bear.

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So I’m outside today, doing some planting in the garden and orchard. I take my phone out of my pocket to check some notes and I find this open and written in my notes. Now, my phone doesn’t open unless I type a password or use facial recognition, so hmm, quite interesting…

Hál Þunor!

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There is no greater role, nor stronger love, than that of a Mother

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Last week, my House gathered together and made a mini May Pole. We have many opportunities at our disposal to live our beliefs, strengthen our bonds, and create joyous memories. Life doesn’t wait. Our gods are calling unto us. Our forebears smile upon our efforts. Our folk need us to be the example. The time is now. The clock is ticking. Go and do.

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The myth of the wild, uncultured, barbaric Germanics is a trope with no basis in reality; & in fact, our ancestors had a highly sophisticated traditional culture that helped them survive and thrive in the harsh & unforgiving environment of northwestern Europe.

Tacitus (abt. AD 56 – abt. 120), a Roman historian & politician had no real motive to speak admirably of the Germanic people, yet wrote a treatise on the Germans; known today as Germania, which details the Germanic folk themselves as well as their culture

It may surprise many readers to learn that the Germanic folk were not given to hedonism and debauchery, but held their women in high regard, marriage as a sacred institution, adultery as something condemnable, & abortion & infanticide as a criminal outrage

Without these values, the Germanic people would likely not have survived into the modern era

From: https://news.1rj.ru/str/weareonefolk

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The Fyrgen Podcast - Episode 2: Practicing Paganism
This second episode of the Fyrgen Podcast continues where the first left off. Here I attempt to give an overview of the ways one might begin to practice as a pagan. Contents: Choosing your tradition/pantheon, recommended reading, meditation, methods of worship, a song, community, change of mindset, and the weekly riddle.

Books mentioned:
The Poetic and Prose Eddas - Snorri Sturluson
The Real Middle-Earth - Brian Bates
The Way of Wyrd - Brian Bates
By Oak, Ash and Thorn: Modern Celtic Shamanism - Deanna J. Conway
The Lost Gods of England - Brian Branston
Looking for the Lost Gods of England - Kathleen Herbert
Path to the Gods: Anglo-Saxon Paganism for Beginners - Swain Wodening
Hammer of the Gods - Swain Wodening
Family Rites For The Germanic Heathen - Swain Wodening
Various - Hilda Ellis Davidson
Asatru: A Native European Spirituality - Stephen McNallen
Rudiments of Runelore - Stephen Pollington
To Hold the Holytides - Thórbeorht Ealdorblótere
Who do we honor on May Day; with the May Pole festivities?

What would be a Germanic name for these? As May is a Roman name, which really isn’t applicable to Northern folk.

Comments welcome and encouraged

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Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man. But he who knows that this was the condition laid down for him at the moment of his conception will live on those terms, and at the same time he will guarantee with a similar strength of mind that no events take him by surprise. For by foreseeing anything that can happen as though it will happen he will soften the onslaught of all his troubles, which present no surprises to those who are ready and waiting for them, but fall heavily on those who are careless in the expectation that all will be well."

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To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.

Terry Goodkind, Temple of the Winds
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The Ethnogenesis of Old Stock Americans Part 1: The term “Old Stock American” is a term used to describe white Americans of colonial 1600s-early 1800s stock, typically these white Americans are descended from the very earliest Northwestern European settlers of Eastern North America. They are mostly descended from the British Isles such as the English, Welsh, Scottish/Scots-Irish, and Irish. While minorities of often from non-British countries were Dutch, German, and French had a presence also. During the revolutionary war, the British promised to free black slaves and allied with native Americans which forced all whites settlers regardless of origin to come together as one fighting force as Americans. This shared struggle led to comradery amongst the different Germanic/Celtic Northwest European Protestant groups in America.
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The Ethnogenesis of Old Stock Americans Part II: This shared struggle against Great Britain leading to independence of the American nation led to a newfound shared identity of a new people. These Anglos, Scots, Welsh, Germans, French, Dutch, and others intermixed creating a new race: The Old Stock American race. This new race united by a shared Northwest European Celto-Germanic or rather Anglo-Celtic WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) culture consisting of Protestant Christianity, Roman style Republican government based on the English common law, and the conquering Aryan pioneer spirit that would define America for most of its history. A proposed idea of the Great Seal of the United States was even going to feature this ethnogenisis reminding Americans of their northwestern European roots of England/Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Holland (Dutch/Netherlands), and Germany but was rejected. It is important we remind ourselves of the natives who founded this land and to reject any notion of “A nation of immigrants.”
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