At-al-land and the Hale-Bopp Comet

This post was sparked off by a reading of Wotan's Krieger's blog Aryan Myth and Metahistory in a post called The British Isles and Atland. In this post he mentions a book called 'Rites and Rituals of Traditional Witchcraft' by Tony Steele (Capall Bann 2001) which uses the famous Oera Linda Book. The key point that this Tony Steele makes (I have not read the book) is that the Great Flood that sank Atland in 2194 BCE was a catastrophe caused by the Hale-Bopp Comet. Wotan's Krieger mentions the link between this event and the creation of Woden's Folk in 1998. As I have mentioned before the Hale-Bopp Comet was the key to the creation of Woden's Folk, but for this post the importance is that it was also the key to unlocking the 'Mysteries of HelgiH'. This will become clear with this new post.

Reading this post of Wotan's Krieger forced me to investigate further and the results are quite astounding. In order to make this post clear I am going to break this into sections all of which will fit together as a whole.

The Hopi Prophecy -

Some have seen the prophecy of the 'Blue Star' as being linked to the Hale-Bopp Comet. This links to the prophecy of the older 'White Brother' who takes a Sacred Stone to the 'Rising Sun' (East), and on arrival sees a sign in the sky - a Great White Star - which signals his return to the Hopi lands in seven seasons. We know that the symbols of the 'Great White Brothers' are the Sunwheel and the Swastika! This is as far as this prophecy goes, but it is enough to note that some see the 'Blue Star' (Great White Star) as the Hale-Bopp Comet, and the return of the 'Great White Brother' being associated with the End Times.

The Prophecy in Matthew 24 -

I have also shown before how the prophecy about the return of 'Christ' is linked to the events shown in Matthew 24, and for the purpose of this post to a section in Matthew 24 -

'For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be....(Matthew 24:27)

....immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the Sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven....(Matthew 24:29)

....and they shall gather together his Elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other....(Matthew 24:31)

....But as the days of Noe (Noah) were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be...(Matthew 24:37).

The darkening of the Sun refers to the Solar Eclipse of 1999 when the Sign of the Son of Man (Ing-Rune) appeared in the heavens; the next day the 'stars fell from the sky' with the Perseid Meteor shower. I will pass on to the next section before making the final comments on what this means.

Islamic Prophecy of the coming of the Mahdi -

'Horn Zu-Shifa rises in the East. The first time it appeared was at the perishing of the people of (Prophet) Noah when Allah drowned them...it will rise after the eclipse of the Sun and the Moon.'  Abi Ja'far

'A star will rise from the East before the appearance of the Mahdi and it has a tail...' Ka'b

These pieces confirm the ideas of Tony Steele and some of it can only be proven right by the experiences I had at the time of the Hale-Bopp Comet back in 1997. These are the points that are relevant to this -

• The time of 'Noah' is around 4,210 years ago according to Hebrew accounts and this is very near to the dating of the sinking of Atland.
• The piece in Matthew 24:37 clearly states that the coming of the Son of Man (Ing or Wid-Ar - the 'Son') would coincide with the reappearance of the Hale-Bopp Comet, 4,000 odd years later. 
• The Islamic Prophecies state that the appearance of the 'Mahdi' (their 'messiah') would be heralded by the appearance of the Hale-Bopp Comet which had appeared before at the time of the Great Flood and Noah.

Here is a most important point which concerns the name of the comet - Horn (*) Zu-Shifa - since in a dream I had at the time of the comet I was told that it was 'Born of Morgana' and that 'Capricorn - the Horn of Plenty' was important. According to one Islamic source the word Shifa means 'hale' - Hale-Bopp. 'Hale' is the same as the concept of Heil meaning 'whole', 'wholesome', 'health' etc. 

(*) One source gives Qarn rather than Horn which suggests the latter is a translation of the word. 

The biblical statement - 'For as the lightning cometh out of the East, and shineth even unto the West' links to the light that I saw across the Northern Skies, running East-to-West, and finishing in a New Star of the North-West (birth of the Avatar). This turned into a vast Sword of Light. This piece also fitted into the Myth of Helgi Hundingsbane where the Norns placed a thread running East-to-West with a Golden Thread that held to the North. This fitted to an earlier Odinic Initiation that I undertook in Scotland, on the Moray Firth, which has a vast fault-line running through it, and according to the Odinic Magician and Wise Man that Initiated me this was the area which was where Scotland split apart in a catastrophe around 7,000 years ago, coinciding with the sinking of At-al-land. We still hold the Stone of At-al-land which was thrown up from the centre of the Earth with this catastrophe, again linking to the Hale-Bopp Comet. 

We have here firm confirmation that the Hale-Bopp Comet appeared at the time of the sinking of At-al-land, This does not negate the time-scale of 7,000 years ago when this continent sank, for the later dating must refer to the last remnants of this great continent which sank beneath the waves. That is if we date this to 4,000 years ago as does the Oera Linda Book and the Hebrew and Islamic Sources. If not we have to come to the alternative conclusion and date this to an earlier appearance of the comet, some 8,000 years ago. Maybe we have two catastrophes! Indeed, going even further back we get a dating of 12,000 years ago, which is close to the 'sinking of Atlantis'. We are in the realm of Archetypal Myth.

The importance of this cannot be overestimated since both the Islamic account and the Christian account refer to the appearance of the comet heralding the 'Coming of the Chosen One' and the Hale-Bopp Comet showed to me the Mysteries of HelgiH - 'The Hallowed One'. It would seem that the sinking of At-al-land was due to the appearance of the Hale-Bopp Comet and that the appearance of the 'World's Chosen' (The Last Avatar) was also heralded by the same comet on its next round. According to certain Islamic Legends prior to the coming of the 'Mahdi' would be the appearance of the 'Anti-Christ' who would be 'one-eyed'. 

We can also gleam from this that with the sinking of At-al-land the Germanic Folk (including the English Tribes-Frisian Tribes) were forced to flee to other areas, including no doubt areas like Persia, India and no doubt the Middle-East, as well as elsewhere. It seems logical to assume that the Aryan Secrets taken out of At-al-land were stolen by Semitic tribes who distorted the teachings into a Middle-Eastern context, thus placing them in Hebrew and Muslim context whereas the true legends came from the North. This actually fits well with the idea of the 'Stone Tablets' which were stolen and hidden in the Ark of the Covenant, and which were taken to the Temple of Solomon, which were taken by the Romans when they sacked the temple, and were then taken by the Visigoths when they sacked Rome. If so this is the Holy Graal (*) which was said to be found in the Cathar area of France by Otto Rahn under the orders of Heinrich Himmler. Where these were taken we cannot tell (Antarctica?), but I feel the Archetypal Myth has yet to reveal itself fully! (**)

(*) I am led to believe that in certain old Celtic tongues the Root *gar means 'stone', which could also be found in 'Gar-Al', one way of saying 'Graal'. I think this may be true since we have the name Cer-rig-e-drudion in North Wales, where 'cer' (cerrig) seems to mean 'stone'. I feel that maybe the 'Graal-Runes' of the English Rune-Row may have more secrets to reveal very soon!

The ancient sinking of At-al-land, due to the Hale-Bopp Comet, and the 'resurrection' of Woden's Folk, also due to the Hale-Bopp Comet, is no coincidence! It would seem that 5,000 years ago a small island still existed in the North Sea near to the Dogger Bank area, and I am going to stick my neck out here and link this to the 'Isle of the Blest' where the last secrets of the Aryan Elite were held. Indeed, those who watched the TV series 'Merlin' will know well that the High Priestess of the Old Religion had as her symbol the Rune of Ingwe, and she dwelt upon the Isle of the Blest. Sometimes information comes through the Blood Memory of those who cannot even imagine what they are actually bringing out! In the series Morgana was linked to the White Dragon. (Yes, we are the 'baddies' in such portrayals, but this is done by the Dark Forces, so all that is needed is to reverse this!) This small island in the North Sea could have sank around 2,194 BCE (with areas around Heligoland) which was recorded in the Oera Linda Book. (See also 'Atlantis of the North' by Jurgen Spanuth.)

I am well aware that the Oera Linda Book is not a historical document and certain things in it are clearly not of our heritage, but the essence may have some real truth, and the title 'Under the Linden' clearly says that this is an Initiated Document - i.e. it comes through the Blood Memory of a Frisian or Frisians. This is an Occult Symbol. 

(*) For this information I am indebted to Richard Scutari and an article 'Hyperborea, Holy Grail, Myths, Legends and True Spirituality'. In this work he states that the Aryans moved to Persia (Iran = Aryania) where the Aryan Secrets were held in the Babylonian Library. Working here was the Jewish Prophet, Ezra, who (when Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem) took this Aryan Knowledge with him. From there the first five books of the bible were created. He also took the Graal - the slates containing the Ancient Aryan Wisdom - written in the Ancient Runes. These were held in the 'Ark of the Covenant' and the rest is history, as they say....

Some time after the appearance of the Hale-Bopp Comet the mysteries of the Holy White Stone of Ing came to light, and one of the secrets here is the Gift of Ing  which is 'Fire'. According to Hopi Legends the White Race from the North is associated with - Fire! This element allowed them to move all over the world and aid the other races (later quite distorted as their 'legends' tell). It would seem that the Holy White Stone of Ing also contains further secrets not yet revealed. 

At the time of the Hale-Bopp Comet it was revealed to me that I was leading a life which was a 'myth' (Archetypal Myth) around the figure of Helgi Hundingsbane. My life had always been a 'Myth' which was fulfilled through my actions which were not always 'conscious', but formed a 'pattern'. My Odinic Initiation in the Scottish Highlands (Moray Firth) fitted the Myth of Helgi Hundingsbane, down to the sea-eagles that swooped down at this Initiation, and the waters that fell from the 'heaven's fells' (Fairy Glen), and then the finding of the 'Stone of At-al-land' at the same site at a later date. The time of the Hale-Bopp Comet fitted with the same Helgi Myth, down to the letter, which was why this is so important. We have been 'resurrected' at this time of the Cycle of the Ages to prepare our Folk for the Coming of the Last Avatar and Incarnation of Woden as Wid-Ar the Avenger. Maybe this is the only way to avoid the Final Cataclysm - or maybe this has to happen for At-al-land to rise once more from the waters.

The Divine Twins - I have outlined before - come at the end of one age and the beginning of the next. The Hale-Bopp Comet came at the end of the outgoing world-age, so we can expect the 'twin' to appear at the beginning of the New Age. The appearance of the Last Avatar cannot be that far off now!

If I am right here then the 'resurrection' of the Runes of At-al-land coincide with the 'resurrection' of At-al-land and the Ancient Aryan Knowledge - contained in the 33-rune Anglo-Frisian Rune Row. This is the Divine Destiny of Woden's Folk, to recover the Runes of At-al-land for our Folk, and prepare the way for the 'Manu of the Aryans' who is the Manu of the New Cycle of the Ages. The 'True Atlantis' that would arise again is At-al-land!

Prior to the appearance of the Hale-Bopp Comet I had a comet-shaped birthmark on my right shoulder. For the next few years after the appearance of the Comet this birthmark faded until today it cannot even be seen. The experience I had back in the Spring of 1997 ended at the Long Man on April 1st of that year. I am even more convinced that this area (the Spiritual Centre of Folkish Wodenism) was set up many thousands of years by Woden Initiates as a 'Time-Clock' that would set itself into place in 1997 with the reappearance of the Hale-Bopp Comet. The area has some very interesting features -

• The Long Man which is Waendal, an aspect of Woden as the April Fool, but also as the God of Cyclic Time (Mundilfore). 
• Above the Long Man is a round-barrow with a long and cylindrical 'tail' and this aligns with the hill-figure below it. It was around this point that on August 10th 1999 a Fylfot-Swastika made up of bottles, containing an ale-bottle of 'Millennium Ale with blond-haired child in the arms of the God of Time was buried and hallowed the following day at 11.00 on August 11th 1999 - under the Black Sun (Solar Eclipse). 
• To the East of the hill-figure is Hunter's Burgh which, as I have stated, is a round-barrow with a long 'tail', not in a cylindrical shape like the other but a pointed 'tail' like a Comet. (At one time, until it was hacked down by the workers who 'protect' these sacred sites, stood a small Thorn-Tree, the symbolism of which links to Thunor.) 
• To the West of the hill-figure is a White Horse, 19th Century it is believed, but we cannot be sure if there had been anything there before. The White Horse is the Steed of Woden and the Last Avatar. The area around the White Horse is 'High and Over' which is sometimes spelt 'Hindover' suggesting that it is linked to the White Hind too. 

November 9th 2015.

THE GREAT YEAR CYCLE

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 'oer

Shall the past disturb thy door!

H.P Lovecraft

In the Hopi Prophecy the Great White Brother returns in 'seven seasons' which some take to be seven years (after the appearance of Hale-Bopp); nothing drastic happened seven years later, and no comet since has had so much attention. But if we relate this 'seven seasons' to seven rounds of the Comet we get 4,000 x 7 = 28,000 years. This is somewhat near to the 26,000 years of the Great Year Cycle. I have already mentioned the Mysteries of HelgiH which parallel the view that the return of Wid-Ar happens every 26,000 years - He Who Returns or The Coming Man. This occurs after the Twilight of the Gods which we could see as World War II. In actual fact, if we divide 26,000 years by 7 we get 3,714 years, which sits between the 3,600 years of Zecharia Sitchin's returning comet (Nibiru) and the 4,000 years of the estimate (which it has to be) of the Hale-Bopp Comet.

RUNES OF AT-AL-LAND

On looking back at the Holy Runes given to me some years ago by a fellow Woden Initiate I noticed that the Odal-Rune (AEdel) is made up of an Ing-Rune and a downward-pointing arrow. This symbolism suggests the sinking of the Racial Lands - the Lands of Ingwe (Tacitus placed the Invaeones in the North-West). There are no less than eleven of the runes which contain a Germanic Ing-Rune (Diamond), which suggests to me that these are the Lost Runes of At-al-land. The circumstances behind the discovery of these runes is so very strange; indeed, we shall recall here what did happen.

This happened back in March 2012, a significant year all round; it started with an email from a Folkish Wodenist working separately from Woden's Folk, working with his own group here in England. He had a strange and vivid vision in which he was told to 'Seek out the Wolf and the Pale Dragon!' At the very same time a woman working within his groups had exactly the same vision. Just after this he came across the WF Site and decided that this must be the 'Wolf' (Wulf) and the 'Pale Dragon' (White Dragon). He got in touch with me and he attended one of our Folk-Moots.

In March 2012 I asked him if he would do a meditation for me on an Ancient Crystal; this was about a lost crystal which certain Wodenists were looking for at the time (either physical or non-physical). Here is the twist, because the Woden Initiate started the meditation with the idea that I meant the Hag-All or Krist-All (crystal) of the Armanen Rune System - which I had not meant. 

• The first attempt showed nothing.
• The second attempt showed the Listian Krist-All Cube but that something was odd, but he could not see what it was.
• The third attempt revealed that there was something inside the Crystal Cube, but it was not well defined.
• The fourth attempt revealed a smaller Diamond-Crystal inside; the Armanen Runes appeared where they would be expected, on the edges of the facets of the first Crystal.
• However, there were runes on the facets of the Diamond-Crystal too - Flaming Runes.
• This revealed 33 Runes in a special order, with the first section F-U-Th being retained but the rest fall into a different order.
• The next evening yet another meditation revealed the rune-names.

The Woden Initiate had been searching for 'healing runes' for years, but he did not know whether these were what he was looking for or if they were meant for me - since I had asked for the Crystal Mysteries of him. His final words to me in the letter he sent with the runes was - 'Either way, I am sure you will be able to shed some light here, Wulf? Best wishes and I hope this helps (in whatever way).'  (Ragnar Eriksson)

I have lost touch with this Folk-Comrade over the years, and I know at one time he suffered poor health, but wherever he may be I feel that the importance of the visions he had are now about to come to light. I am now beginning to understand that these are perhaps the 'Lost Runes of At-al-land' given back to us by Woden. It was clear from the start that the Diamond-Crystal (Inga-Runes) emerged from within the Krist-All (Armanen Runes), just as the Sword of Hengest passes from the Hun (German) to the Engel-Kin - from the Land of the Father (Fatherland) to the Land of the Son (Ing-Land). The Runes of At-al-land were 'born' of the Hag-All which is the 'Seed of Life'. 

We need not go into the rune-staves here but I have neglected these for some time when nothing seemed to come out of it; as I have said before though, these things only come to light when their time is here! It is time to get involved with these runes since they seem to be calling again at this vital time. 

'When the Ice of the Darkest of the Night melts away under the Fire of the Black Sun of the Inner Earth, the poison apple shall fall away, and the Sleeping Goddess shall awaken, throw off the White Wolf Skin and arise renewed by the Golden Apples of the Immortals. When the Moon is under her feet and she is clothed in the Golden Sun, she shall bring forth the Divine Child of Light who will lead the English Folk in their Divine Mission against the Servants of Darkness.'

The Prophecy 88 - November 9th 2014 (one year ago yesterday).

"...Wotan ordered the construction of an imaginary chain that made 'the sound of the footsteps of a cat, with bird's saliva, the breath of a fish, the root of a rock, the hairs of the beard of a woman. The Gleipnig Chain. That is to say, all things that do not exist. It was only this that was able to immobilize the Wolf, by using Laws of Another Universe, where the very gods are from, where Laws do not exist. The Wolf was imprisoned until the Gods began to doubt that which does not exist ....Then the Fenrir Wolf broke this magical cord, devouring all the Gods and devouring Asgard.'

'The Resurrection of the Hero'  - 55 Club  (Words of Don Miguel Serrano).

This piece by Miguel Serrano is enlightening since we can see that the only means to bind the Fenris Wolf was by using material that did not apply the laws of the physical universe, but came from another world where Laws do not exist. Only when the Gods ceased to believe in that which did not exist could the Wolf escape! I have never wavered in my belief that the Last Avatar will appear here in England, even with the mess that this land is in today, and even when the Dark Forces believe they have halted the advance of an English Awakening. Only through firm belief can we regain what has been lost, and into the void created by the destruction of the English Awakening build a new and virile Folkish Movement for the English. 

Only when we all believe sincerely in The Coming Man will Wid-Ar appear once more; only when the Good Folk cease to falter in their sincere beliefs will this happen. It was said that even the Elect could be deceived. The Elect gathered from the Four Winds - let none falter in the firm belief in The Coming Man. The Avatar incarnates at fixed periods of time, at the end of a world-age or a Cycle of the Ages, during a cosmic crisis. The appearance of an Avatar means a great cataclysm to awaken the people - the Ride of the Wild Hunt which brings into play the 'King of Terror'! This is Woden as Ygg the Terrible!

The Horn of Plenty

The Skapker Heidhrunar is the 'measuring vessel of goat Heidhrun which sustain the Einheriar each day. This suggests that Valhalla is linked to Capricorn which is the Northern Gateway to the Gods. Capricorn is the 'Goat's Horn' and is Heidhrun. The Hale-Bopp Comet stood in the Northern Skies in the area of Cassiopeia which is the Beorc-Rune of the Birth-Goddess, and since this was 'Born of Morgana' it suggests that this is Wyrd or at least associated with Wyrd - Morgan le Fey is 'Morgana the Fate' who is the 'Goddess of Fate'. 

The Sinking of Atland

2193 BCE - The Sinking of Atland.

'How the bad time came - The whole summer was the sun veiled by the clouds as would she not see the Earth....The light was thus sad and dim...In the midst of this stillness, the Earth started to shake as if she were dying. Mountains split from each other to spew fire and flame, others sank down in her Womb, and where she first had fields, raised she mountains thereupon. Aldland, called Atland by the seamen, sank below and the wild waves stepped so far over hill and dale, that all were overwhelmed. Many people were buried in the Earth and many who escaped the fire were killed thereafter in the water. Not only in the land of Finda spewed the mountains fire, but also in Germany....Many lands were sunken, others risen out of the sea and Germany was half bereft of of forest...'

Oera Linda Book (Frank H. Pierce IV).

The term 'Aldland' or 'Oldland' would certainly have been of later use, after the sinking of the ancient lands of the Northwest; they would have been the 'Old Lands' then. Prior to this time the lands were called At-al-land - 'Racial Land'. The symbol used of this land is the Edel-Rune or Odal-Rune. 

Prophecy of Frana - 'Hark Earth and be blithe with me. In the time that Aldland i sunken stood the first spoke of the Yule on top. Thereafter is he gone down and our freedom with him. When he has rolled down two spokes or 2,000 years, so shall the sons stand up whom the princes and priests have sired by the folk through whoredom and witness against their fathers. They shall succumb to murder, but what they have said shall remain further in the bosoms of the stout-hearted people, thus like good seed which is laid down in thy womb. Yet a thousand years shall the spoke incline downward and all the more sink in the gloom and in blood, spilled through the class-level of the princes and priests. Thereafter shall the dawn again begin to glare. Seeing this shall the false princes and priests struggle and wrestle together against freedom, but freedom, love and harmony shall take the Folk in their guard and with the Yule rise out of the vile pool. That light which first glimmered then shall gradually become a flame. The blood of the Evil shall stream over thy body....At last shall the venomous creature prey thereupon and die thereof. All vile histories which are intended to exalt the princes and priests shall be offered to the flame....When she had spoken sank she down....'

Oera Linda Book.

In 'Atlantis of the North' Jurgen Spanuth tells of a cataclysm that destroyed parts of the Northern Lands around 1,200 BCE, which is a later date than what we have featured previously. Myth and legend are often very hard to date, but even here we may find that such a cataclysm affected the areas in the North-West long after the sinking of the original At-al-land in the North Sea. Spanuth's work is something that needs to be read since it contains a vast amount of knowledge collected on the subject. 

We are talking about catastrophic events that spread from an earliest date of around 10,000 BCE (Atlantis/At-al-land), 6,000 BCE (At-al-land), 2,000 BCE (Isle of the Blest) and times in between these. 10,000 BCE, 12,000 years ago, is half of a Cosmic Cycle (around half anyway), and we are today at the end of the Fourth Age, as Tolkien showed in Lord of the Rings. 

November 10th 2015.

We keep the Sacred Flame alight!

Note - I am well aware that some say the Hale-Bopp Comet orbits every 4,000 years whilst other claim 2,000 years (rounded numbers) but whatever the case this still fits into the frame of this work whichever is chosen.

Cu Chulainn - One-Eyed Hero.

"The essential part of the military initiation consisted in ritually transforming the young warrior into some species of predatory wild animal. It was not only a matter of courage, physical strength, or endurance, but of a magico-religious experience that radically changed the young warrior's mode of being. He had to transmute his humanity by an excess of aggressive and terrifying fury that made him like a raging carnivore...in short, he no longer felt bound by the laws and customs of men."

Code of the Warrior - Mircea Eliade.

There are certain essential points to be made of this quote -

• This speaks of the cultic-warrior who forms part of the cultic-warrior brotherhoods known as the Aryan Mannerbunde. The God of the Mannerbund was Woden himself - the 'God of the Club'. 
• The transformation into the wolf, bear or boar (or other wild animals) effected a change into the warrior being outside the laws, rules and customs of the society, and thus a Wolf's Head. The term warg, wearg, varg came to me one who was banished, but its original meaning would have been that of the 'outlaw' and 'outcast' who had to leave the social order and remain outside the 'boundary' of the tribe, cast into a liminal state of consciousness, neither in one world or the other. 
• The 'aggressive and terrifying fury' is the Teuton Fury also known as the Wolfish-Rage or the Berserker-Rage. This is the wod from which we get the force personified by Wode and then the master of this force Woden. 

The God that led the cultic war-band was Woden, the One-Eyed Hunter-God; in this role he is the Horned God and The Hooded One/The Masked One. 

"His hair stood on end so that it seemed as if each separate hair on his head had been hammered into it...He closed one eye so that it was no wider than the eye of a needle; he opened the other so that it was as large as the mouth of a mead-goblet...The Champion's Light rose above his head..."

This passage refers to the Ulster Hero Cu Chullain ('Hound of Culan'), known in Northern Ireland Scotland and the Isle of Man. This describes what is known as the fearg which means 'fury' and refers to the Wolfish-Rage (he is the 'hound'). Indeed, the word fearg is the equivalent to the Germanic wearg meaning 'wolf' in the sense of the 'outlaw'. The root comes from a Proto-Germanic Root *werghez meaning 'to strangle'. This, of course, refers to their link to the God of the Hanged - Woden. 

The Torc worn by the AEthlingas - the Warrior Caste - can be clearly seen to be a twisted cord which when worn around the neck could be seen to represent the hangman's noose, thus hinting that these were dedicated to Woden (or whatever title was used by the Germano-Celtic Tribes) as the Hanged God and God of the Hanged. The word torc stems from 'torque' which means 'to twist', 'to turn' or 'to wind'. 

We can see in the above quote that Cu Chulainn turns into a one-eyed figure and this is the state of transformation into the One-Eyed Hunter-God or One-Eyed Wolf-God - Woden. This is further borne out in another passage from 'The Wasting Sickness of Cu Chullainn' which relates that -

"...all of the Ulaid women who loved him blinded one eye in his likeness..."

This seems to suggest that the One-Eyed Hunter-God (Woden) was turned into a heroic figure in later times, perhaps due to Christian influence. This is not the only case of one-eyed figures occurring in Ireland and Scotland since we can find similar tales of other figures who share the same characteristic -

• In a tale called 'The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel'  we find a figure called Fer Caille who is described as being a hideous black giant with spiked hair, a single eye, foot and arm, and brandishing a huge club. This is deemed by Celtic scholars to be the Wild Herdsman, which is another title for the 'Lord of Animals' also being the 'Lord of the Trees' - Herne the Hunter. Interestingly this figure is linked to the Baor, and thus to Frey and Freya. 
• In a later section of the tale a massive army is led by a one-eyed warrior named Ingcel, and thus the tale links to another one found in Denmark with the very same theme, but in the Danish tale the warrior is called Ingeld. (We should note the names related to Ingwe.)
• In yet another tale we find that a Macc Oc's foster-father loses an eye, and the name Macc Oc means 'the son of' and is directly related to Ingwe. In similar tales we find the names Oenghus, Aengus or Angus all of which are the direct equivalent to Ingus or Inguz which is a variant of Ingwe. 

These similarities may not be 'borrowings' since I would suggest they have a common source in the ancient land of At-al-land which was the northern continent much of which sank under the North Sea some 7,000 years ago in a catastrophe. This being so these myths are Ario-Germanic Myths (Northern European) originally. As we have gone some way to proving, these islands were not 'Celtic' at all but were made up mainly of Germanic Folk with a mixture of Gallic peoples from Southern Europe and migrations from the South.

To further prove this point 'The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel' is based around the Winter Sunstead period of the year, and the four main points of the 'Celtic' (Gallic) calender are the X-points and not the points that include the Winter Sunstead, this being a Germanic Festival. We can find Germanic Myth throughout these islands since the peoples are a mixture, and the idea that Wales, Scotland and Ireland are somewhat 'different' and 'Celtic' is a modern invention - one suited to our oppressors who work through the 'divide and conquer' method. In very ancient times we can see that Ingwe-Inguz is a figure found throughout these islands (except Wales, but even there we find Woden as Gwydio/Wydion).

Our Aryan Myth is not a 'child's tale', a fantasy, but is an Eternal Truth that manifests itself at times in historical events. Myth seems to impinge upon historical events, throwing up heroic figures in times of dire need, figures living an archetypal myth rather than the mundane life of the masses. This archetypal myth appears from another world, from another dimension in order to change things in this world. 'The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel' is similar to the story in the Icelandic Hrolf's Saga where a great hall is burnt down; this is also found in the English Beowulf. The myth centres around the Winter Sunstead period in December or in some places like Holland the 'Yule' is celebrated on Woden's Day (St. Nocholas' Day) which is December 6th. 

In regard to the appearance of Fer Gaille his 'black' appearance is not due to his being of African descent but to his links to the dead. This still appears within our Germanic traditions in such  a figure found in Holland, Zwarte Pieter ('Black Peter') who accompanies Sinter Klaas (Santa Clause) - this is celebrated in Woden's Day (December 6th) and in this original form he rides a White Horse, the reindeer being a later version when the whole thing was transported to the North Pole and then Lapland. This also comes out in certain former heathen dances where the participants 'black-up', since these are a remembrance of such warrior-bands as the Harii who 'blacked-up' as part of their appearance of terror - all part of the Indo-European Mannerbund. 'Blacking-up' today is seen as 'racist' in certain quarters and the blacked up dancers and even Zwarte Pieter have been targeted - leave us something of our own tradition and culture or you'll have nothing to moan about! 

His stance of closing the right eye, standing on the right leg and putting his right arm behind his back is a typical Crane-Stance which emphasises the left-side or 'sinister side', and, of course, the Left-Hand Path. (The actual form is the loss of the eye leg and arm but the stance would better be done through how I have described it above - saves a lot of pain!) 

Black your horse, black your cloak,

Black your head and black yourself,

Black skull, are you the Frenzied One?

'The Coming of the King' - Nikolai Tolstoy.

'Distorted was the guise of Grim upon the windy pinnacle of Wodnes-beorg: grimes wrasen, masked and twisted....Round spun the Masked One, revolving ever faster in his frenzy....'

'The Coming of the King' - Nikolai Tolstoy.

Wudga & Hama

Wudga and Hama are paired in some Old English texts, and they parallel Witega and Heime in German tales. Wudga, Witega or Widia is the son of Wayland, or usually seen as the son of Wayland, whilst Hama or Heime is the god Heimdall. In the past I have seen fit to associate these two with the Divine Twins, or rather as an aspect of the Divine Twins. The Old English witega refers to a 'seer' or 'prophet' and this aspect must be taken in context, for Hama is the god who incarnates to instate or reinstate the Divine Order of the Gods - The Caste System or Racial Order. It seems clear that the two have differing roles, but appear at the same time as the Divine Twins. 

I see Wudga as being akin to Woden in some strange way, since we see Woden as a 'seer' or a 'prophet' (he morphed into 'Merlin' in the Middle Ages). We have shown before how the Incarnation of Wotan appeared in Germany during the last century, so we have actual proof that this god-form resurrects in order to save his people and in this case to change the world-order. In the god Wid-Ar we can see an extension of this concept in that he is resurrected with the death of his father - Woden. 

The role of Wudga (Woden) would thus be that of the Leader of the War-Band, who would take the road of 'Chaos' in order to reinstate the Divine Order that has been broken through the Evil Powers that have taken control of the world. Wudga (when seen as an aspect of Woden) is the power that parallels the 'Dark Knight' in having to work outside the rules and laws of society in order to combat a corrupt and degenerate society. The 'Dark Knight' works outside the law to combat the forces that have themselves worked outside the law to crush all of the Divine Law set down by the Gods - 'The Joker' ('The Trickster' maybe) in one sense. Thus Woden-Wudga takes the Left-Hand Path which - as we find in Tantric Lore - uses methods taken from the more chaotic and sinister side. Chaos combats chaos! That is how it must be. This is why we find that every concept related to the Germanic Mannerbund, whither in Germania, India, Persia and throughout the Indo-Germanic world is found to be related to a group of 'outsiders', 'outlaws' who work outside the rules of the social order, dress in black, and use the Black Flag and the Death's Head Symbol. The leader is Woden as the One-Eyed Hunter-God - the Wild Huntsman.

We see that in every legend and mythology concerning such Cultic Brotherhoods these are feared or shunned by those within a stable society. This is because of the way they work, their involvement in the Left-Hand Path and their chaotic and disordered lives, living outside the 'norm', outside the 'boundary' of a civilised society - Barbarians. Often these brotherhoods are suppressed and go underground, no doubt since they would be rather awkward when times are stable. Going underground meant that they would surface again at the right time - indeed this seems to have been true of the Holy Vehm which had a similar type of structure and maintained order through working outside the laws of society - working to their own laws. 

Hama is the God of Order who reinstates the Divine Social Order of the Gods; his role runs parallel to that of Woden-Wotan but is not the same. He incarnates in the flesh at the same time but as the role of Manu or Rig-Hama in recreating the Divine Order of Race - renewing the Caste System in other words. He thus works at an entirely different level, for his role is aimed at the future as much as the time in which he resurrects. His role is to recreate the Aryan Aristocracy which has been destroyed by the Forces of Darkness and Evil. 

In the role of the Divine Twins we can see an Archetypal Ur-Myth in which one twin is Immortal, the other Mortal. Hence it seems clear that, like Elijah (Old Testament) and Romulus (Rome) the founding twin is Immortal and rises up to the heavens - or in our day we would see a legend that he did not die but lived on after, being built around him after his departure. This we can relate to Wudga since in one German Legend he (Witega) rides his horse into a lake and is never seen again. His departure (like that of Krishna too) would herald the end of a cycle, as that of Krishna ended the cycle after the great war of the Mahabharata. It seems logical to see Hama (in this role) as the Mortal Twin. 

This is rather a difficult concept to grasp, since there is so little knowledge of the Divine Twins in any of the mythologies. In  the case of Hengest and Horsa (nearest to the English) we find Horsa being slain in battle and Hengest going on to conquer the new lands - they are clearly the Founding Twins. There is also some kind of crossover between the roles of Wudga and Hama as can be seen from what has already been said. It is thus difficult to tell one from the other. 

The Folk-Leader or Fuhrer (*) takes the role of Woden - is Woden - as the Leader of the War-Band. Indeed, the woda-force is by nature a chaotic force of ecstasy, intoxication, divine 'madness', hence its role in the Germanic Mannerbund. We need only refer to the essay 'Wotan' by Carl Gustav Jung to recognise the nature of this force, though Jung seems to have missed the point that this force is necessary to bring order out of chaos. 

(*) This is used here in the true sense of being related to the 'Teuton Fury' or 'Berserker-Rage' which is an aspect of Woden as his name suggests - he is the 'Master of Wod. The alternative name of the Wild Army is 'The Furious Host' which underlines this idea. 

In today's world we can see the re-emergence of this power through the Spirit of Woden moving within groups that use the tactic of torchlight marches - a method used by various different movements throughout Europe. This is the 'Light in the Darkness', the powers that work through the darkness - against the darkness. This is the role of the Shadow-Warrior who combines within himself the Power of Light and the Power of Darkness in balance. He works for the Light Forces and worsk under the cover of darkness and night - using the Left-hand Path. This is where Woden's Folk took a leading role, in creating a new Folkish Religion firmly based on Woden as the One-Eyed Hunter-God, something that many Odinists and Asatru fail to grasp, still sticking to the 'Viking era'. Here in England it is not widely recognised that the figure of our own Folk-Hero - Robin Hood - is far nearer to the true and original role of Woden as the One-Eyed Hunter-God and Leader of the War-Band - the Wolf's Heads.

The term 'wolf's heads' came to mean one who was banished from the tribe, but I would suggest that this is a later interpretation and the original concept was that of the Shadow-Warrior who leaves the tribe and societal rules behind to live in the wilderness, there to train in warfare and survival, learn the Archetypal Myth of the Great Cosmic War, and return as the Tribal Leader (Shaman-Leader) in order to take up the struggle in this Cosmic War. The term 'Wolf's Head' would thus refer to the wearing of the wolf-mask and wolf-cloak (Hooded Cloak) in the service of the Wolf-God, Woden. 

The Resurrection of Woden.

This work resulted from a number of points raised by Wulf Veldasson (Wotan's Krieger) which are of extreme importance to the study that we have done on Wid-Ar who is the archetype of the new world-age – the ‘Age of the Son’. The figure of Wid-Ar is not well known and has been seen as a god of the future by many Odinists. Within Wodenism we see Wid-Ar as being the resurrection of Woden after he is swallowed by the Fenris Wolf.

The points that Wulf Veldasson made originated from ideas by George Dumezil who sees Wid-Ar as a very ancient Indo-European archetype linked to Vishnu, through the prefix ‘Vi-‘. Whether the fact that the two gods have the same prefix for their name links them in any way is highly debatable, but they do seem to be the same archetype. Dumezil seems to think that Wid-Ar is –

•     Aligned with vertical space since he has his hands on the lower and upper wolf’s jaws, and horizontal space due to the wide steps he makes and his strong shoe.
•     Keeps the wolf from destroying the cosmos, i.e. he is the ancient god who appears at the right time to save the cosmos from destruction.  

Wid-Ar is the ‘Silent Ase’ and the ‘Avenging Ase’ and Dumezil equates his silence with that of a ritual silence undertaken prior to an act of vengeance. He is also known as Wid-Ar the Avenger. He is nearly as strong as the god Thunor and the gods rely upon him at times of immense difficulties.

Woden and Wid-Ar visited the three Wyrd Sisters in order to seek Wid-Ar’s fate. The three sisters answered thus –

‘Early begun!’

‘Further spun!’

‘One day done!’

Wyrd, the Primaeval Goddess of Fate, added -

‘With joy once more won!’

They learned that the circling ages roll on and change, past, present, future, passing away and beginning again. When the All-Father falls on Vigrid he is resurrected as his son Wid-Ar. Wid-Ar the Silent is the Avenging God and the God of Victory, for it is he that brings the renewal of nature and ushers in a new Golden Age.

The Myth of Wid-Ar tells us that Woden wed Grid who was a giantess living in a cave in a desert. The offspring of their union was Wid-Ar which tells us that he represents the union of Woden (Spirit) and Grid (Matter), and that he is incarnated into matter in order to avenge the Gods and Folk. He is the Forest Warrior who personifies the primaeval forests and the imperishable forces of nature. He lived in Landvivi (‘Wide-Land’) within the primaeval forest where deep silence and solitude ruled.

He wields a sword and is shod with either an iron or leather shoe, depending upon accounts we have given down to us. It is said that Grid gave him his iron shoe, but other accounts tell that his shoe was made of scraps of leather discarded by shoe-makers. Whatever the case the shoe needed to be strong enough to withstand the jaws of the Fenris Wolf. This, then is his prime role, to rip open the jaws of Fenris and allow the Spirit of Woden to escape destruction.

He is the symbol of resurrection and renewal which is the vital force that we need today in our dying world. It should be noted that both Wali and Wid-Ar are gods born for the sole purpose of vengeance, Wali to avenge Baldaeg and Wid-Ar to avenge Woden. Wali’s Day is now called ‘St, Valentine’s Day’ where he is remembered as a God of Lovers, his true role having been distorted through time. Since ‘St. Valentine’s Day’ falls on February 14^th this is his time of the year; he is followed by Wid-Ar whose time is around the Spring Equinox, for he heralds the New Dawn of the Cycle.

We have used the unusual spelling ‘Wid-Ar’ because this best suits our own Wodenic Lore since it can be broken into two parts, each of which tell us much more about this god – Wid – this can mean ‘wide’ which refers to his being the ‘Wide-Strider’ which links him to Orion the Hunter whom the Egyptians called the ‘Wide-Strider’. It can also be seen as ‘widu’ which means ‘woodland’, for he is the Woodland God and the Woodland Warrior. The Old English *wid or *wit means ‘wise’ and gave rise to the term ‘witan’. This root is also connected to the term ‘veda’ which means ‘wisdom’. It is quite possible that the famous Saxon Hero, Widukind (Wittekind), was the ‘Child of Wid-Ar’ and the ‘White Child’, for *wit could also be seen as ‘white’. This is the 'White Rider'. 

Wid   – ‘to see’, ‘to know’.

-   ‘to pierce’, ‘to perforate’.

-   ‘to break through’

From these meanings we can see that he is a god that ‘knows’, he is a God of Knowledge like his father Woden. He is also able to break through and penetrate which tells us that he is the god who breaks down barriers and forces his way through obstacles. Only Thunor is said to match him in his strength. There is a root-word sequence connected to his name –

Wad   Wed   Wid   Wod   Wud

Ar – This root-word of our word Arya which came to mean ‘noble’ but originally referred to the ‘Shining Ones’ or ‘Solar Race’. The root *ar- or *ari refers to ‘movement’ and thus to the Life-Force of the Gods and Life-Force of the Cosmos. The root-words ar, ara, ari, har, hari, harri, hara heri, here, heru, hero etc. are all connected to the term Arya.

The Old English widre means ‘to withstand’, i.e. ‘resistance’ and this is an ideal meaning of this god who is the ‘God of Resistance’. This is also true of the German ‘widder’ which means ‘resistance’, and can also mean ‘ram’. Wid-Ar comes under the zodiacal constellation of Aries the Ram which is around March - April, covering the Spring Equinox as we have already stated. This also links him to Hama-Heimdall who is associated with the Ram and with Aries. There may also be a link to the pairing of Wudga and Hama, Wudga is the Witega of German Legend. Here is another link to this god as a god of foresight, seeing and wisdom, since the Old English witega refers to a ‘seer’ or ‘prophet’.

Certain German words related to 'widder' mean 'to return' and when we use the term 'widdershins' it means 'returning' rather than just 'anti-clockwise' or 'backwards'. This widdershins Swastika is thus the Swastika of Return. This is 'He Who Returns' - the god who returns at the start of a new Cosmic Cycle, as the Manu of the coming cycle. 

Wid-Ar is usually seen as slaying the Fenris Wolf by ripping open the jaws of the wolf, but in another account he plunges a weapon into the heart of the wolf. The term ‘sword’ is not used for this but is usually taken to be so, though the weapon could have been a spear. Widukind is usually seen as wielding a spear.

The ‘Greater Wolf’s Jaws’ are an Old Saxon constellation which centred around Andromeda, and the semi-circle of stars from Pegasus to Cygnus the Swan. The Greater Wolf’s Jaws faces across at the Pole Star, threatening the stability of the Cosmos; it also centres round the Dark Rift which is the ‘womb’ of the Milky Way and the Galactic Centre.

We have seen how Dumezil linked Wid-Ar to vertical space and horizontal space, and this may well be true in view of his being born of the giantess Grid, for a ‘grid’ is made up of vertical and horizontal lines. Indeed, the ‘grid’ seems to be associated with the Dragon Force that pulses through what is usually called the ‘Ley-Lines or Dragon-Lines.

We can compare Wid-Ar with the Egyptian god named Horus (Greek) or Heru (Egyptian). Horus is a ‘God of Silence’ (shown on the cover) and a ‘God of Vengeance’ (he avenges the death of his father). We must first look at the Myth of Horus in order to further understand the nature of Wid-Ar, and to understand his role as ‘The Avenger’.

There are various different accounts of the ‘Royal Myth’ which concerns Horus and Set, and the form varies considerably within these. The one account that is favoured over the others has Set slaying his brother Osiris, and Horus being born to avenge his father. This is the one that we shall look at here.

Osiris is slain by his brother Set whose name is perhaps related to ‘Surt’ meaning ‘Black’ and who is a desert-god whose role is rather destructive; he is sometimes seen as being linked to Apophis the Destroyer who is the enemy of Ma’at (Cosmic Order). Osiris is a culture-hero who brings the arts of agriculture, just like Scef, and who is usually associated with the constellation of Orion the Hunter.

In this main account Set binds Osiris and slays him, cutting his body into 14 pieces which are scattered across the land of Egypt. Isis and Nephthys, sisters of Osiris, mourn his death and Isis searches far and wide to find the 14 pieces of Osiris which have been scattered around the land. In the name of Nut, mother of Osiris, Isis revives her brother with various magical incantations. Isis places herself upon the Phallus of Osiris and is impregnated with his seed, from which is produced the son Horus who ‘was in Sothis’, this being the Greek name for Sirius which in Egyptian was ‘Sepdet’ which means ‘The Pointed One’.

In the battle between Horus and Set, Horus loses his eyes and Set his testacles, both regaining these afterwards. Horus gives his lost eye, now regained, back to Osiris that he ‘may become mighty before the Glorious Ones’. The Eye of Horus’, given to Osiris, is called the ‘Opener of the Way’. In this Horus, like Woden, sacrifices an eye, Horus to Osiris and Woden to Mimir. Osiris is avenged by Horus through the slaying of Set.

There are certain things that we should remember here, for Horus the Child is just one aspect of the figure known as Horus, for before the coming of Menes (who is Manu who appears prior to the Great Flood) an ancient master-race known as the Shemsu Hor (‘Followers of Horus’) ruled over Egypt. This dates back to pre-dynastic times and is an extremely ancient legend. The figure of Horus appears to be very like that of The Divine Fool since his father is slain by his uncle, and it is he who avenges the father. The Eye of Horus is a very strong symbol in Egypt and its connection to Woden is obvious.

It is also very important to note that Set is shorn of his testacles, i.e. he is made barren and unable to procreate. This is similar to the figure of Amfortas who is wounded in the ‘thigh’, and also to certain types of ‘Satanic’ figure who are ‘clipped’ between the thighs. In another version of the ‘Royal Myth’ Set is seen to be ‘from the marshes’ whereas Horus is the ‘Divine Child’ with the Sun-Disc on his forehead. There is also something that I discovered whilst studying the subject of Horus and Set, and that fits into symbolism used for the closing ceremony of the 2012 ‘Olympic Games’. In this account Set shape-changes into a hippopotamus which is the animal seen being ridden by ‘Britannia’ in the 2012 propaganda. It would seem obvious that the Occult Forces that were behind this propaganda linked their work to the god Set who the Egyptians saw as being the Lord of Chaos and Destruction. This is perhaps paralleled by the figure of Set being linked to an ass which was the steed of ‘Jesus’ and always symbolic of the downtrodden ‘masses’.

We have already seen how Set was equated with the ‘marshes’ and it is thus interesting to note that the Fenris Wolf can be seen as the ‘Wolf of the Fens’ or ‘marshes’. If we see the symbolism of the hippopotamus (Set) being ridden by ‘Britannia’ then perhaps we can see the triumph of Set over ‘Woden’s Isle’ (Merlin’s Isle). Or put another way the ‘Wolf of the Fens’ devouring the god Woden!

Woden is the ancient God of our Folk, and his so-called ‘death’ at the hands of the Fenris Wolf is in reality the key to his resurrection in a young and virile form. The ‘ageing god’ – Woden – is resurrected as his son, Wid-Ar the Avenger. The Spirit of Woden has been reborn in the form of his son – Wid-Ar the Avenger, a young warrior-god and as strong and mighty as the god Thunor. This is a very ancient archetype that appears in times of cosmic destruction; Dumezil equates him with Vishnu which is interesting to us in that Vishnu is the one god that incarnates upon earth as an avatar at various times during the Cycle of the Ages. It is the god Woden who incarnates upon Earth in the guise of his son, Wid-Ar who is the Avenging God and the Last Avatar known by the Hindus as the Kalki Avatar and by Wodenists as HelgiH – the Cosmic Spirit 88.

It would seem clear that this symbolism of the god Woden being slain and resurrected would have to be played out in the Cosmic Myth as an Archetypal Myth prior to the resurrection of Wid-Ar the Avenger. In an ancient Egyptian Ritual an iron ritual tool is used to rip open the jaws of the dead Pharaoh; this ritual is designed to allow the spirit of the Pharaoh (who represents Osiris) to escape and become a 'star', the spirit being resurrected as Horus the Avenger. Here we can see the same 'ritual' in the ripping open of the Wolf's Jaws by Wid-Ar, allowing the Spirit of Woden to escape and thus resurrect within his son.

In the Norse Eddas Snorri Sturlasson equates Wid-Ar with Aeneas which is very interesting. It has to be said that Snorri makes the Norse Gods into humans and equates them with Troy. It was very fashionable at one time to feel that Troy was the cradle of various royal lines, but we cannot dismiss all of these accounts as being false. What we need to remember is that Troy fell at the hands of the Greeks and as in many other defeats there would have been a number of survivors who escaped and wandered into other lands, seeking later fame for themselves and their race. This could certainly have happened with the defeat of Troy.

What is interesting in Snorri’s seeing Wid-Ar as the Greek Aeneas is that this Trojan Hero was the son of the goddess Aphrodite (Venus) and escaped the flames of Troy carrying his blind father, leading his own war-band to wander through various lands until they reached Italy. According to Virgil (‘The Aenead’) the descendants of Aeneas were Romulus and Remus who were the founders of Rome, and had the Wolf as their Tribal Totem. The Roman Empire, according to this account, was a direct descendant of the Trojans under Aeneas. We cannot tell how much truth there is in this, nor in Snorri’s assertions.

In the Vedic Tradition there is the triple-godhead of Brahma (Creator), Vishnu (Preserver) and Rudra-Shiva (Destroyer) and if Wid-Ar is the equivalent of Vishnu then he comes as the ‘preserver’ and as the Kalki Avatar in his final incarnation of this cycle. We can see from this that Wid-Ar is not a ‘minor’ god of any kind, nor is he a god of some future age, for he is Woden reborn into his ‘Son’ – the ‘Son of the Sun’.

In one aspect Wid-Ar is The Hidden God which relates to HelgiH who is The Hallowed One and The Hidden One. He is the god that at this time is ‘hidden’ from view and whose ‘silence’ is like the calm before the storm – ready to break upon the world like a hurricane. He is the God of Resistance whose symbol is the Wolf-Hook Rune which is the Symbol of Resistance.