The Yule-Tide

The Mythical Yule

At first I was not going to bother with this again since there are so many differing opinions as to what is 'right' and what is 'wrong'. But those who are active within the Woden Folk-Community, and those who support us and take an active part themselves, deserve some kind of uniformity so as to take part in a Community Ritual. I must add, this is my own opinion on this, and many may differ here, but it is based more on common sense and the natural world as well as how we know our forefathers did things at this time of year. And it can be made easy to work, even with individuals and families who do not all share heathen beliefs, and lessening the chance of problems within families (and thus aiding our enemies in their aims). 

THE MOTHERS' NIGHT - This starts on the evening of December 20th where the Sisters of Wyrd or Norns are honoured. Since the Winter Sunstead can be either 21st or 22nd December this should be done in line with whichever is right for the year. 

THE WINTER SUNSTEAD - This can be either 21st or 22nd December and is done the day after the MOTHERS' NIGHT Rite. In mythical terms this is when the Sun 'dies' which is why I light a candle inside the Yule-Light to symbolism the Dying Sun. At this point the Sun 'stands still' - hence the use of Solstice or Sunstead, both of which mean 'Sun-Still'. (This appears to stand still, though in mythical terms it does so - this is symbolic.) 

RHE BEBORN SUN - This will thus be either 24th or 25th December according to the date of the Winter Sunstead. The Sun dies on 21st-22nd and for three days appears to 'stand still' (in death), and on December 24th-25th it is Reborn as the 'Reborn Sun'. Since we are here dealing with the Mythical Yule then the 'Reborn Sun' can just as easily be seen as the ' Birth of the Son' - the Father reborn as the Son. This is not a Judaeo-Christian thing, bar its having been taken from its heathen roots to use for a different purpose. The Gods die at Ragnarok, and they are 'reborn' as the Sons of the Gods. Where lies the difference? This ancient myth can be found in the Legend of Osiris who is slain by his uncle, Set, and is resurrected by his mother, Isis, resurrected as Horus the Son, born on December 25th. At this point I light another candle on the top of the Yule-Light, this is symbolic of the Reborn Sun. 

THE NEW YEAR - January 1st, making the Twelve Nights of Yule as the period of celebration, found in the Twelve Nights (Six of Peace - Six of War) period of the Great Year Cycle from 1933 to 1945. On January 1st 1989, January 1st 1990 and January 1st 1991 Woden either appeared to me in a dream (1989), a Vision of Light (1990) and his Two Ravens (1991, appeared visibly to both myself and my ex-wife). Thus I see Woden as being related to the New Year, the period of ending and new beginning. Thence comes the Wassailing Ritual for the coming year. 

I would have thought that our main aim in trying to revive a Yule-Fest is to counter the 'Christmas' that is now (not always) based upon economic materialism. The obvious reason why Judaeo-Christianity could not get rid of the Yule-Fest and the honouring of the Gods, Goddesses, and Ancestors was that it was too engrained in the lives of the Folk and in the Folk-Memory. There are today rumblings of an attack on 'Christmas' and such an attack will bring with it an attack on the origins of 'Christmas', origins found in Heathendom. 

In regard to the 'Reborn Son' we even have a Norse Saga where a child named 'Helgi' is born on December 25th and whose birth is accompanied by the Norns. What is most important here is the Mythical Yule-Tide, since when a Primal Myth is recreated in time, what happens is that Time and Space are dissolved into a 'Magical Time' which 'earths' this Primal Myth in this time - year after year after year........

And this Yule-Fest is in line with creating a new Folk-Religion that will unite the Germanic Folk in their struggle for survival - which is the most important thing for us, is it not? This Folk-Religion for the English must be a Germanic Religion, and thus suited to the Germanic Folk as a whole, in line with Wotanism and Odinism which are doing the same. This is exactly how J.R.R. Tolkien approached this, reviving a Germanic Mythology for the English Folk, one going back to Thule-Hyperborea and Atlantis. 

 Conflict of Opposites

The 'Creation Myth' of Norse Mythology is based upon Ginnungagap as 'The Void', but as I have said before this is not really 'nothing' since it is a Magically-Charged Void, and this is named 'Ginn' from which springs 'Ginn-ung' ('Offspring of Ginn') and 'Gap' is the Gaping Chasm to Void. Put another way, Ginn is the Primal Consciousness that permeates The Void. To the North is Ice, to the South is Fire, and this is 'ok gustr' - 'without wind'. Clearly, it is the movement of 'wind' that brings together the two opposites, out of which a 'rime' is created. The very basis of all life is this Conflict of Opposites. The Primal Consciousness within The Void is the moving force that brings together the two opposites, to create a third. 

Now we move the the Doctrine of Hegel - Thesis vs Antithesis = Synthesis. I have to admit I know little of Hegel but it seems likely his work centred around a more spiritual approach, whereas that of Karl Marx, who too on the same idea, was based on a totally materialistic basis. This is the 'Conflict of Opposites' sited above, that results in the 'synthesis' of the two opposing forces - they are fused together as one. But Karl Marx was just one important figure in the Hidden Agenda, and one that clearly knew well that what he was doing would not destroy Capitalism, but fuse it together with Marxism - which has happened in our own era, clear for all to see. 

The Occult Symbol known as 'Baphomet', originating I believe in Eliphas Levi, is not the same as the Templar 'head', but is in itself an Occult Sysmbol of this 'Fusion of Opposites' -

1. White Moon - Black Moon: the hands point upwards and downwards to these symbols, which are 'White Man - Black Man' (Man and Moon are linked in the Germanic Tongue). On the arm is 'Solve et Coagula' - a formula for breaking down and running together the Black Man and White Man. 

2. The figure is androgyne - Man and Woman fused together.

3. The figure sits upon the Globe of the World, symbolic of world domination. 

4. There are other Occult Symbols but we need not go into these here.

Over the past decades some of the most important happenings point to a Global Agenda based upon this 'Conflict of Opposites', and agenda that will produce a 'third force' - a New World Order. 

1. The conflict of Capitalism and Marxism is now fusing together in the 'Great Reset'; Capitalism was created in order to put the world's wealth in the hands of an 'Elite', and Marxism was created to produce the 'proles', the slaves needed for these Elites to control in their Global Order.

2. The conflict of Man and Woman has seen the fusion of male-female over the last few decades.

3. The conflict of White and Black has seen the fusion of these races (in part) already, the move towards a 'Race of Tan' predicted by Count Kalergi. 

4. The conflict of parent-child creates a situation in which children appear to grow up quickly and miss the important childhood, and where some adults do not seem to mature at all.

5. The conflict of Judaeo-Christianity and Islam will result in their fusion into a new World Religion. The other religions are also pitted against each other and they too will fuse into the new World Religion. 

The method used by the Occult Powers is 'Conflict Management', by backing both sides at the same time whilst guiding the outcome through ensuring that one side is stronger than the other (if necessary), and the outcome is assured. With this knowledge we can see more clearly the 'progress' of history throughout the last few hundred years. It is thus very hard to counter such a force since whatever is done can be manipulated and used in this 'Conflict of Opposites'. This should have become clear with the emergence of 'Tommy Robinson' and the rise of the 'Far Right' (sic.) here in England. The conflict of 'Christian-Zionism' emerges as the opposing force to Islamic Militancy, and thus paves the day for a World Religion. It would seem that a counter-force needs to be based upon a Balance of Opposites. This seems clear in The Hooded Man Prophecy - the Power of Light and Darkness in balance. 

I have covered this subject before but felt the need to do so again so that we too do not fall into the same trap by creating a 'conflict' that will have the same result. I see the need to expose what is being done against us today, and to explain how our religion has been subject to distortion in the past. But I see no point whatever in keep attacking others for what they are doing or have done in the past, since in doing so all we do is to create a 'Victim Mentality' in ourselves. Do we need to whinge and whine about our plight, instead of creating a positive and strong movement that will ensure our freedom and survival? 

 In Days of Yore - Helgi Hundingsbane

The expression 'In days of yore.....' seems to be used to tell the reader that what is being said has happened in ancient times. However, like the phrase 'Ar var Alda' (*) used in the Norse Myths, it would seem to be used for what is known as 'The First Time', the 'Time of the Gods'. The phrase 'Ar var Alda' appears in the Helgi Lays where the mention of 'Borgar' seems to be telling us that this is a retelling of a Primal Myth, a myth set down in 'The First Time'. (According to Viktor Rydberg Borgar is the equivalent to the Hindu Bhrigu.)

(*) Ar var Alda is translated as 'Twas in olden times' which is the same as 'In days of yore'. 

Another thing that suggests that this is so is that Helgi Hundingsbane appears at the start of a New Age, an age that brings to an end an era of peace and plenty. That the Raven that spoke to Helgi foresees an era where the ravens will feast on the dead of the battlefield shows us that this is so. We are told of the Raven that 'hunger gnawed him', and that the Warrior-Hero will 'feast the wolves'. 

Another point that is often overlooked is the phrase - 'In his byrnie stands who was born at night, King Sigmund's son....' This is dismissed because it makes no sense, a new-born child standing in his 'byrnie'; we are told that it should not be taken literally. However, it seems that the Wolsunga Royal Line had a special trait in that when born the Warrior-Hero was older than he should be. This is clearly some sort of symbolism, and we should also bear in mind here that a hero being 'born' can sometimes itself not be taken as a physical birth, but as the basis of a Warrior-Initiation - a Rebirth as the 'Twice-Born'. This would also be true of the appearance of the Three Sisters of Wyrd (The Norns) at the 'birth', since at this point the Warrior-Hero would be dealt his Wyrd. 

The reference to Helgi Hundingsbane as an 'Ylfing' tells us that he is of a branch of the Wolsungas - the Wulfingas. He is later called 'Yngvi's Scion' since it seems obvious that the Wulfingas were of the Inglingas or Ingefolk. We are told in 'The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane that he is fostered by Hagal, whose son was Hamal. Hamal is here introduced, and Hamal or Amala is the Divine Ancestor of the Amali which were a Tribe of Goths. I doubt that these things are introduced for no important meaning; the Goths were, according to Aelfric Avary, a tribe of the Ingvaeones, only later being seen as Istvaeones since they moved to the East. The name 'Borgar' is the same as the 'Berig' who led the Goths out of Scandi (Scandza) in a very early Germanic migration. 

That this is a Primal Myth which goes back to 'The First Time' is clearly suggested by the name 'Borgar'; the Myth of Helgi is thus a retelling of the Ur-Myth, or a 're-enactment' of the Ur-Myth. This re-enacting of the Primal Myth transcends Time and Space, and Helgi Hundingsbane arises as the Warrior-Hero-King who takes back the Edel-Lands in the North at this time - hence the breaking of the peace and the waging of war. Here, like Rig-Earl, Helgi is bade take back the 'Edel-Lands', the ancient lands of the North. 

We are also told of Helgi that '...his eyes flash fire, aethlingawise....' which is a Warrior-Hero trait - the eyes show the soul of an individual. Helgi is likened to an 'ash-tree' and to a 'towering deer', the deer being associated with the Wolsunga Tribe. Helgi Hundingsbane is wed to Sigrun ('Victory-Rune') who is a Valkyrie, and who protects the Hero in battle with her Warrior-Maids. What we do have in the Helgi Lays is proof of the heathen idea of 'resurrection'; note that I do not say 'reincarnation' which suggests the 'Way of the Ancestors', where one is reincarnated into the tribe or clan. Using the term, 'resurrection' this suggests that the Warrior-Hero lives an Archetypal Myth, which is itself 'reborn' at each incarnation of the Warrior-Hero on Earth. This 'rebirth' or 'resurrection' is from Valhalla, whence the Warrior-Hero returns after death, to be reborn anew as the next Archetypal Myth.  The Myth of HelgiH is just that - an Archetypal Myth which is 'reborn' again and again at different periods of the Cycle of the Ages. 

The Archetypal Myth of Helgi Hundingsbane was 'reborn' in the spring of 1997 through the power of the Hale-Bopp Comet. It is likely that the tale we are given of this Archetypal Myth took place at the start of the Kali Yuga or Dark Age, or maybe at the start of the Iron Age. Like the incarnation of Ingwe as Hengest, Helgi Hundingsbane incarnates at different times, and this Archetypal Myth leads to the incarnation of Helgi the Haddinga, whose Valkyrie-Wife is Kara. This name itself is important since it can be found as 'Kari' in Njall's Saga, a masculine form of the name, but still meaning 'Time'. This is the equivalent of the Hindu Kali whose name can also mean 'Time' as well as 'Dark', and she is often linked to Kalki (Avatar), hence the link between HELGI and KALKI since the letter-changes are feasible in Indo-European Lore. 

To emphasise the link between Helgi and Kalki the Aryan Root *kal- found in 'kal-ki',

means 'to hide' or 'to cover', whilst the Germanic Root *hal- means the same. So both Kalki and Helgi mean 'The Hidden One'. The name 'Helge' or 'Helga' is said to stem from the IE Root * kailo- meaning 'whole', the Germanic root being *hal- as above. Hence, 'The Hallowed One' is another rendering of Helgi. These meanings are reinforced by the reference to Hagal as his foster-father, a name that is used of the Hagal-Rune. 

"When justice is crushed, when evil is triumphant, then I come back. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, for the establishment of the Reign of Righteousness, I am born again and again, age after age."

Bhagavad Gita 4:7-8

Goden & Joten - Part Two

 Goden and Joten - Part Two

Slumber Watcher 'til the spheres

Six and Twenty Thousand years;

Shall revolve 'ere I return

To the spot where now I burn.

Stars that soothe and stars that bless

With a sweet forgetfulness,

Only when my round is o'er

Will the past disturb thy door.

Howard Philip Lovecraft

There are some today who are promoting the idea that the sinking of Atlantis was due to these 'Formless Ones' or 'Great Old Ones'. There is a work that appears to be a 'channeling' - the Emerald Tablet of Thoth. Now, I would guess that around 99% of such 'channelings' are merely wishful-thinking on the part of the individual, a means today of making them feel important in a world of mediocrity. But certain works of the past seem to be genuine 'channeling', the most famous of which I would say could be Aleister Crowley's 'Book of the Law', which most certainly contains prophecy, and has most certainly created change in the world - for good or evil. So 'channeling' need not be dismissed as fraud, which is why I am going to quote this piece from the Emerald Tablet of Thoth -

"Fell from the Light into the Darkness, some who had risen to heights among men. Proud they became because of their knowledge, proud were they of their place among men. Deep delved they into the forbidden, opened the gateway that led below. Sought they to gain ever more knowledge, but seeking to bring it up from below. He who descends below must have balance, else he is by lack of our Light. Opened they then, by their knowledge, pathways forbidden to men.....Sown sank Atlantis beneath the dark waves, shattered the gateway that had been opened, shattered the doorway that led down below...."

As with many ancient accounts of 'The Flood', this can be caused by 'God' in order to chastise man, or by 'The Gods', to do the same, or it can be a natural process, or it can be the work of dark, destructive forces. Whatever the case, at the end of a world-age, or a Cycle of the Ages, there is a massive cataclysm that destroys the dominant power of the time. And this dominant power has been responsible for evoking Dark Forces of Chaos and Disorder, either through Dark Sorcery, or in our modern times through high-tech means like CERN. (Here we should note that a figure of Shiva can be found outside the complex, and that CERN seems to be CERNUNNOS - a God of the Gauls, a Horned God. This seems to be yet another example of the use of Heathen Gods who have been distorted to suit their own ends. There are dark sides to these Ancient Gods.) 

This work of channeling also tells of the fleeing of those dwelling in Atlantis (in a flying machine), and the place they fled to - Egypt, then known as KHEM - the 'Black Land'. Pride comes before a fall - and this is how the sinking of Numenor/Atalante is seen in Tolkien's works, where the Kings of Men - the Numenorean Kings - became so proud as to challenge the Gods and to conquer the Land of the Immortals - to become immortal themselves. Now, we do have a Greek Myth of Tantalus, a mortal being who tried to steal the Ambrosia (Drink of Immortality) for personal gain. The Nectar of Immortality can only be given to the great Heroes of the Folk, as with Hercules who was offered this by Athene. 

"He Who Dwells in the Abyss - emerged from The Void to offer the Atlanteans forbidden knowledge."

As is clearly stated in the 'Emerald Tablet' - 'he who descends below must have balance' - the Balance of Light and Darkness, or he will be swamped by the Darkness and drawn into its Dark Net. Those who seek to open the gateway to 'below' are engulfed by the Darkness, and they then act in a way typical of the powers that control the world today - psychopaths in many cases. Those people today are devoid of all feeling, shown in their drive to achieve a set agenda at all costs, no matter what the pain and suffering. Yet, though engulfed in the Darkness, this pain and suffering can be seen as a challenge - a great struggle by which the individual (and the Folk) can overcome all human limitations to become the Overman or Superman. Through the evil of the Dark Joten, the Children of Godan may overcome and rise above the world in ruins, lifting themselves Above the Ruins, as 'Men Against Time' - Time - The Great Destroyer of the Worlds! 

There is a legend in India of a land named Tripura, originally a Land in the North, but which, after being destroyed by Shiva, arose again in the Land of the West. These locations fit with Thule-Hyperborea and At-al-land. This legend is interesting in that this can only take place when the Three Lands are aligned, suggesting that such cataclysms take place when certain stars-planets are in alignment. Lovecraft's poem about the Pole Star tells us that this returns to its former position every 26,000 years or seven stations of the Pole Star. This is also said to be the time at which Wid-Ar the Avenger returns. 

Much of this stuff revolves around a 'balance' - the 'Balance of the Power of Light and the Power of Darkness. Or, put another way, the 'Balance of Opposites. This is exactly how it was at the be-ginn-ing, since Ice and Fire were in balance, and the 'conflict' between these two opposing forces resulted in their fusion, from which Creation arose. This is the stuff of The Hooded Man Prophecy, which also gives sound advice upon how to trick the 'ruling powers' into not recognising the intentions of 'The Hooded Man' - 'The Fool'. The Power of Light and the Power of Darkness must be forged into a wholeness within the movement that will successfully counter these Dark Forces. The archetype of 'The Fool' or 'The Hooded Man' (*) is a balance of Order and Chaos, since he is the one to bring Justice and Order, and yet he dwells and works from the 'Chaos' of the Wild Walds. He is the 'Wolf's Head' (outcast), the Dog of the Outside, who dwells outside the order of society. This is the role of the ancient Germanic Mannerbunde, working in the 'liminal' are, neither in one nor the other. The 'Balance of Light and Darkness' comes at this liminal period, whether it be Dawn-Dusk, the Spring Evennight, or the Winter Evennight, which are the periods when the Light and Darkness are in balance. 

(*) The Hooded Man Prophecy is a multi-layered one, and more and more things are coming to light as to why this arose at this time of the Cycle of the Ages. It is more than a prophecy, it is a means to the balance of the mind, the balance of the individual, the balance of the Folk. It gives advice on how to work in secret to combat forces that are insurmountable at this point of time, telling us how to stay in the 'shadows', even though we work in the 'Light'. It also shows the way to the creation of a resistance to these Evil Powers, one based upon a balance of opposites within the wholeness - the Halgadom. This balance is found in the Haegl-Rune and Hagal-Rune, the balance of Light and Darkness within the Heil - wholeness. 

These ideas give us a grounding in what is happening today, and thus be able to build a counter to these Dark Forces. A Spiritual Movement is needed since this is a spiritual sickness amongst our Folk, and the aid of the Gods, Goddesses, Divine Wights, and the Ancestors is needed too, since we cannot do this alone. Our Enemy uses Occult Forces, and like Woden we too need to gain knowledge of these Occult Forces; the Ancient Runes are the key to our own Arcane Knowledge. The origins of our Gods and our Folk, and the Divine Spark given to the Germanic Folk by the Elder Gods is of vital importance. The Age of Heroes must produce new Folk-Heroes; in invoking the Ancient Heroes we bring them back to life within the Folk. The Gods grant to the greatest of Aryan Heroes the Gift of Immortality. 

Goden & Joten - Part One

 Goden and Joten - Part One

That which existed in the be-ginn-ing was known as Ginnungagap, consisting of Ice in the North and Fire in the South. 'Ginn-unga' means 'Offspring of Ginn' and 'Gap' is the Gaping Chasm, the Void, the Abyss. It is thus wrong to state that everything enfolded from The Void, since this was not in itself the original form. The original form is 'Ginn' which relates to a 'Divine Power' and also to a kind of 'Cosmic Joker'. Thus we have a 'Magically-charged Void' which is in itself not a 'nothingness' from out of which everything emerges - there was already a Primal Consciousness. 

The Primal Ice and Primal Fire were separated by the 'Gap' and Ginnungagap was 'loft vindlaust' - 'air without wind'. It was thus through the 'setting into motion' (wind) that the Primal Ice and the Primal Fire came together to start the creative process that leads to the creation of a Cosmos. This process was never that of a 'God' who created the Cosmos, nor was there a 'God' from which everything emerged, and to which everything returns. The only thing by which we could refer to a 'God' is in the name Godan - Woden - who, with Will and Weoh, officiated over the First Sacrifice in which the Joten - Ymir - was cut into pieces to form the Cosmos. Woden-Godan is one of the 'Elder Gods' from out of which emerged the other Gods and Goddesses. 

The lineage of the Elder Gods starts with Buri who is born through Audhumla (The Cosmic Cow or Cosmic Mother) licking the Ice-Rime, and he is the First Divine Being. We are told of no female being here, so Buri is presumably 'asexual' in the sense of being able to reproduce through Divine Thought. From Buri comes Bor, from whom we get the title 'Boreans' - those 'Beyond the North Wind', and Bor married Bestla ('Best Blood), one of the Joten. Thus the Elder Gods were fused with the Joten, but we have to assume here that these were the 'Sweat-Born Joten', born from the armpits of Ymir. A second Race of Joten were born from the feet of Ymir, and were thus the 'Low-Born Joten', a far different race of beings, Beings of Darkness & Chaos. 

We can see here how this split into two of the Joten-Race can cause problems in understanding our Ancient Mythology, but this is not restricted to Norse Mythology. In the Aryan Mythology of Persia (Iran) we find a very similar thing, in that  Shaedan Shaed is that which emerges from AHU, and the Dark Power that opposes this is 'Shaitan', a corruption of a very similar name to Shaedan Shaed. In a sense we are here given a challenge in that we have to distinguish between the 'Light' and the 'Darkness' for ourselves. AHU forms the base of AHURA - Ahura Mazda, the 'God of Light'. With the Info-European letter-swap we have AHU - ASU and AHURA - ASURA, but in Hinduism the original Asuras became the demonic powers, no doubt through the mixture of races in the area. Asu - Asura - Aesir - Asen are all variants of the Divine Powers of the Arya. 

The terms 'Goten' (Gods) and 'Joten' (Giants) are so similar as to be a challenge to us to sort out for ourselves. The term 'God' can be found in the Gothic name for Woden - Goden - but again we find that this name can be varied by certain logical letter-changes. We have the 'Goths', but we also have the 'Jutes' which is a variant name for the 'Goths'. In Old English the 'Eoten' are the same as the 'Joten' but in Beowulf the term 'Eotenum' is used for the Jutes, as well as the Giants. It was thus quite easy for the Low-Born Joten to claim that they were the 'Chosen of God' when this really applied to the 'Goths' whose name derives from the term 'God'. In this case Godan or Gaut, a title of Woden, spelt 'Geat' in Old English. 

Those who have looked at the WF Telegram site and read through the works of Richard Barrett on there will have become aware of the pitfalls in taking up the esoteric ideas of the Eastern Martial Arts, since these invariably base themselves on 'The Void' and 'Nothingness' or 'Formlessness', an alien idea to the Aryan Mind. Ice and Fire exist in the be-ginn-ing, and the Creative Power arises through the 'setting into motion' of a Divine Thought (movement of air, wind); Divine Consciousness (Ginn) also exists as a 'Magical Charge within The Void, i.e. this is certainly not 'nothing' since this is 'something' within the Void. Audhumla - the Cosmic Cow or Cosmic Mother - also appears and she brings into being the first 'Elder God' - Buri. It is here interesting to note that in some Info-European Tongues the word 'Buri' is applied to the Wolf; it is certainly where we get the terms 'Bear' and 'Boar' from, but was probably originally any wild beast. 

In one passage in the Eddas we find that All-Father 'lives throughout the ages', which rather contradicts the idea that Woden is slain at Ragnarok. But we are told that the immortality of the gods, and their ability not to age, is entirely down to the Golden Apples of Idunn, or more precisely, to Idunn giving the apples to the gods. I say this because when Idunn is taken by the Joten her Apples of Regeneration are not taken (we assume), so this power has to have Idunn 'gifting' these to the gods. And when Idunn was taken, the gods started to age, thus telling us that they are not quite 'immortal' in that way. 

Also, Baeldaeg is 'slain', as is his brother Hoder, so here again we have the same problem in that this does not make them 'Immortal'. But Woden, Baeldaeg and Hoder are 'resurrected' after Ragnarok, or at least we are told that Baeldaeg and Hoder arise again in the Golden Age. Since Woden is 'swallowed' by the Fenris Wolf, and his son Wid-Ar rips open the Wolf's Jaws, this leads to the conclusion that the 'Spirit of Woden' is released by Wid-Ar. In this sense All-Father 'lives throughout the ages', going through the very same Birth-Life-Decay-Death-Rebirth process outlined by Guido von List. Thus, the Gods as well as Men are subject to Becoming if this is right, so there has to be a 'Being', something that is there, unchangeable and unknowable - that which is, or that which exists - the immovable mover. 

In 'Armanen Runes and the Black Sun' Aelfric Avery mentions that Gimle, the brightest heaven and dwelling of All-Father, is the only world the exists beyond Ragnarok. This itself suggests that 'All-Father' is more than a 'Racial God' of our Folk, and that Woden, maybe, is a 'projection' of the 'All-Father' who creates a 'Chosen People of God' to act out the Creative Will here on Earth. And these seems to be the important words - Creative Will - since Woden-Will-Weoh are that Creative Will, either as separate entities or a Three-Fold God which is quite common in the Aryan Mythology. 

It is most likely that the Abrahamic Religions - Judaism, Islam and Judaeo-Christianity - took the idea of a single 'God' from the Religion of Zarathustra which arose in Persia, originated, it is said, in the 'Land of the Aryans' in the Far North - Airyana Vaeja. Certainly, the Religion of Zarathustra was never the same as the worship of a vengeful and jealous 'God', the basis of the Old Testament, where his 'Chosen People' are constantly driven to destroy anything and anyone that stand in the way of their drive for world domination. And to utterly destroy the Gothic Nation, the true 'People of God', and to do so break their Ur-Religion and replace it with the worship of Jahu-Shaddein - the 'Lord of Shadows'. 

Howard Philip Lovecraft wrote a series of horror-stories based upon horrific dreams that he had during his short life. These dreams are based around a race of entities known as the 'Great Old Ones' or 'Forgotten Ones' who existed even before mankind. These are clearly forces of Chaos and Darkness, and are sometimes known as 'The Formless Ones', since they appear to have no real form and order. Although these are 'fictitious' beings, this theme has been taken up by certain Satanic Occultists, and also seems to have been worshipped throughout the ages by secret groups working in the shadows to keep this whole theme alive. The one dominant theme throughout the tales given to these, and similar Dark Beings with different names, is that they arise from out of the 'Abyss' - the 'Gaping Void' Clearly, what we have here is Beings of Chaos that are evoked into manifestation here on Earth at certain times when they can be in evoked. Lovecraft hints that this happens every 26,000 years, or at the end of a Great Year Cycle. 

There has been speculation as to whether the fall of Atlantis was due to the appearance of these 'Formless Ones' who were evoked by certain Dark Sorcerers, and who thus brought upon the land the great catastrophe that sank these lands. Through study of some of the occult ideas centred around these islands there is some evidence to suggest that at one time Dark Forces arose here in ancient times. Throughout history we find that certain 'Gods & Goddesses' undertake a drastic change in their roles and forms, sometimes reversing completely their form, suggesting that their Archetypal Image was used  to reverse their form in order that their worshippers were thus worshipping a Dark Form. 

After reading some of the old horror tales of Howard Lovecraft, and watching some stuff on YouTube about these 'Formless Ones', I had a vivid and realistic dream in which one of these entities appeared. This was a jet-black formless mass, which is all that can be said of it, since it was a formless, changing mass - a shapeless mass. Some of the appearances of Woden (in his Dark Side) are quite 'scary' in a sense, so this no doubt helped to make this more 'palatable', and I even tried to get back to sleep to see what would happen next - nothing! But this does go to show that these 'Dark Entities' are not just something without but, like our Gods and Goddesses, are also within - hence the need to recognise that this Cosmic War is fought within ourselves too.

Of course, the majority of people will completely dismiss the dream here as coming from a 'vivid imagination', but this is not meant for the 'majority of people', only for those who have an inkling that there is far more beyond this world of matter, and that there are other worlds of being that impinge on our world. And that there are Divine Powers and Demonic Powers, Light and Darkness, Order and Chaos. Woden, and some of the other Gods too, is recorded as going to the 'Land of Giants' or to 'Utgard' (Out-gard), especially (in the case of Woden) to find Hidden Knowledge, or to regain the means of gaining this Hidden Knowledge - the Sacred Mead, for instance.