The Three Cauldrons - Part Two

"Wicca is an eclectic mixture of pagan religion and ceremonial magic. It is not the religion of the Celts, but the spirit remains the same. As modern witch and Jungian psychologist Vivian Crowley states, it owes much to the Dionysian, and it is a paganism of 'ecstatic vision, of trance, of the loss of individual consciousness and its merging into Nature...' "

Quoted from Warriors of the Wasteland by John Grigsby. (My underlining).

I have quoted this passage so that people can understand why we need a spiritual discipline that runs counter to this type. Wicca may think itself 'different' but from what is said here it has the very same aims as the disciplines of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism etc. which are the major religions and spiritual disciplines in the world today. This is why Wicca is acceptable whereas we are not! Whether it be 'Union with God', 'Union with Nature' or 'Union with the Cosmic Consciousness' the aim is to achieve a loss of individual consciousness which in real terms means being plunged back into the Primal Chaos or Primal Soup. Individual consciousness (ego) was the gift of Hoenir, given to Man in order that he Know Himself and become self-conscious, which is a necessity if Man is to become the God-Man or Divine Being that has long been prophesied. The aim of most spiritual disciplines is to achieve Samadhi which is the 'Union with the One' whereas the separation of the ego, and its enhancement and transformation into the Absolute I is the aim of what is know as Kaivalia.

As I stated in the first part this work was sparked by a reading of some stuff done by Steven Mc Nallen of the Asatru Folk Assembly, whom I am indebted to for bringing up some of the ideas that came through from it. From a Word to a Word we are led to a Word. This is how things work and if what we can do can stimulate thought in others then our work is not in vain. Part Two will continue the study of the Three Cauldrons.

Urda magn

Svalkaldr saer

Sonar dreyri.

Wyrd's strength

cool-cold sea

Son's liquid.

The Well of Wyrd is sometimes named Odroerir and a draught from the well is 'Wyrd's strength'. 'Son's Liquid' is from the Well of Mimir at the Cauldron of Son, and the 'cool-cold sea' must be Hvergelmir at the Cauldron of Bodn. These make up the draught in the Hel-Horn given to the dead when they first enter the Realm of the Dead - Hela. If Hvergelmir is 'the cool-cold sea' then this area is where the Fire-Serpent lies dormant - Fire-in-Water. So although the liquid is 'cool-cold' it contains Fire within it - just as the clouds contain the lightning. The three liquids from the Sacred Wells are contained in the Aurochs-Horn (Urarhorn or Ur-Ar-Horn). The Hel-Horn has the Mythical Serpent Fann engraved and painted upon it. 

The idea of a 'cool-cold sea' suggests that this centre is associated with cool water that is heated. If we relate this to Hvergelmir (which we have) then this suggests the 'roaring' associated with 'boiling' water. We should note that around the lowest centre (Hvergelmir) lies the Serpent-Dragon Nidhog - Kundalini. This also suggests to me that this is the Sleeping Goddess who is 'frozen in ice' and who can only be freed through the heat of the Black Sun of the Inner Earth. Like the Earth itself, she is protected from the freezing cold by the White Wolf-Skin (the white snow). The Black Sun would here be within the area of the Hara since this is the source of heat that will melt the Ice and free the Sleeping-Goddess. 

Those who have looked at the Guerilla Survivalism site from Wulfinga will have seen how we use the term FAH to represent the needs of fire-lighting - Fuel - Air - Heat. This is at a physical level, but the same formula can be applied to the methods we are going into here -

Fuel - The Ur-Essence contained at this centre.

Air - The 'Vital Breath' (ond) through rhythmic breathing (through the abdomen as it should be). 

Heat - The heat is actually generated by the Fanning of the Fuel with the Vital Breath - this is felt as a heat generated by the body, in my experience this moves up and down the Spinal Column. 

The name Hvergelmir means 'roaring kettle' which itself suggests the heating of a liquid, or the fermenting of a liquid (which produces heat). Kettle- Cold Water-Heat. The Brosingamen Necklace has to be retrieved by Hama from the waters into which Loki plunged with the necklace. If we place the Ur-Rune within this lower cauldron this is connected to 'drizzle' and to 'vapour' which results from the heating of liquid. This cauldron is named Bodn which suggests the German Boden which means 'soil' or 'land' - Earth. 

The Solar Plexus Centre or Heart Centre we have linked to the Lagu-Rune which we can very simply link to the idea of 'motion' (as this cauldron is called) since the word leikr means 'to spring up' or 'to set into motion' and this we can see in the Laukaz-Rune. The Lagu-Rune itself, in its shape, suggests a 'wave of the sea' or even a 'fountain of water' which 'springs up' (leikr) from the ground. Whatever the case it suggests 'movement' and the 'setting into motion' mentioned before. Since this area is linked to the blood ('son') then red seems the suitable colour for it. 

The Third Eye Centre is named Odroerir ('wod-roarer') and is linked to the Well of Wyrd which has been called Odroerir. This is termed hvitr aurr which makes white (hvitr) suited to this area. This we have linked to the As-Ansuz Rune which is the Rune of Asgard. 

There are few references to the three containers of Three Cauldrons but we find two obscure ones -

'Bodn's growing billow' - Einar Skalagram

'Son's reed-grown grass-edge' - Eilif Gudrunson

The former suggests that this area is indeed the area of 'incubation' as Steve McNallen has stated, since 'growing billow' suggests a growing 'surge' or 'swell' of water, i.e. the beginning of life or movement from something static. The 'reed-grown grass-edge' of Son suggests a stretch of water, a lake - the Lagu-Rune. 

I would now like to look at the role of the Vedic God named Agni who is the equivalent to Hama-Heimdall and even to Ing, who we shall refer to as Inga since it is 'AGNI' spelled backwards. I am going to list the roles of Agni here -

Outer Form - The Sun

                     - The Lightning (Fire-in-Water)

Hidden Form - The sap in plants.

                       - The blood in animals and man

Angi is -

- The Sun

- The Lightning

- The Hearth Fire

- The Sacrificial Fire

- The cremation-Fire

- 'Liquid-Fire' (Sap and Blood)

The 'parents' of Agni are the Two-Sticks that rub together to make the Nyd-Fire; the Nyd-Rune is a glyph of the Fire-Bow at one level. Agni is also named Apam Napat - 'Son of the Waters' since he is Fire-from-Water, especially as the lightning from the clouds. He works here at three levels -

Earth - Friction-Fire

Heavens - The Sun

The Atmosphere - The Lightning

Fire and heat is what moves the sap and quickens life; in the cold winters heat is lacking and the sap withdraws into the roots. Agni is thus seen as the Vital Spark or the Flame of Life. 

I have moved slightly away from the main subject here to show that 'fire' and thus the 'Fire-Serpent' are associated with Agni-Fire or Inga-Fire. The Fire of Kingship is called hvareno by the Iranians, and was the sole property of the Aryan Nations. This concept - hvarena - seems to be connected in some way to the Brosingamen Necklace since both are stolen and hidden in a lake, the first retrieved by Kau Khusrau and the second by Hama-Heimdall. The hvarena is held by the goddess Ardvi Sura Anahita and the Brosingamen Necklace by Freya. 

In the quote at the top we find that the Three Cauldrons are indeed linked to the Three Wells or Three Fountains - Wyrd's Well, Well of Mimir and Hvergelmir. It is thus correct to say that the Sacred Mead is held in these three wells, as well as in the three cauldrons or vats that Woden obtained the Mead from, held by Suttung and guarded by Gunlod. But this is not the only place where the Sacred Mead is held.

There is another legend held about the Sacred Mead, and one that we should all know in passing, though the details would not be well known.

Jack and Jill went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water;

Jack fell down and broke his crown

And JIll came tumbling after.

Indeed, it was not 'water' that Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch - it was the Sacred Mead. Jack and Jill are names corrupted from Hyuki and Bil, the  children of Vidhfinnr the Giant. The 'water' they went to collect was held in a bucket carried on a pole between them, the pole in the original tale being called Simil or Sumil a name related to Sumble through the root *suml meaning 'brewing, ale, mead'. 

It would seem that there was originally a source of mead at a hidden place in Jotunheim, and this was stolen from Jotunheim and taken to Nokkve's Ship, where 'Bragi, unharmed, refreshed himself' or 'renewed the vigour of life'. Bragi, of course, is the God of Poetry and a Son of Woden. The name Nokkvi/Nokkver means 'ship-owner' or 'ship's captain' - this ship is the Moon. 

Mani - the Moon-God - sees the children (Hyuki and Bil) who fetch the mead at night, filling their pail from the fountain Byrgir. They carry it way in a brimming pail on a pole on their shoulders. Mani takes them and they then remain with him - he adopts them. It is important to understand that the Moon is a source of the Mead of Inspiration and this can be proven by the fact that the Soma of the Hindus, which is the Soma-Medhu ('Soma-Mead') too, is connected to the Moon, as Agni is connected to the Sun. The Soma was concealed on the Moon. 

We can find evidence of the stealing of the Sacred Mead from Vidhfinnr, who is termed Fin in an Old English source, when we find an enmity between Fin and Nefr/Hnaf (Moon-God) who steals the Sacred Mead from Jotunheim. Nefr is the founder of the Niflungs, and Fin is also called Sumbl Finnakonungr and Svigdir. The latter title is interesting since it means 'The Champion Drinker' and the root of the name is swig meaning 'to drink deep draughts' (Old English) - we still use the term 'to swig ale'. Svigdir may well be the Jotun whom Woden had to impersonate when he entered Knit Mountain to steal the Sacred Mead from Gunlod who guarded it. 

The Moon is known to affect the subconscious mind and no doubt to work on the Right-Brain; it certainly affects dreams that we have, and makes for more lucid dreams at certain phases. This is what is meant by the Mead of Inspiration because it gives insight into hidden things. So the Sacred Mead is also contained in the Moon, guarded by the 'Man in the Moon' (Mani). He carries a lantern and a bundle of thorn-twigs which he uses to punish evil-doers. The 'lantern' suggests that the Moon has an 'artificial light' which it has, it's light is not of it's own but that of the Sun in the Lower-World. There are so many links between the Myth of Knit Mountain and that of the Moon-Mead that this can be no coincidence. 

Steve McNallen equates the Three Cauldrons with the three Arya-Castes and this a a relevant point we need to consider -

Lower Cauldron - Bodn - Earth - The Craftsman/Landsman Caste (Ceorl) which embodies fertility and virility and the prolonging of life. This would be the genital area which is part of this centre. This is the Hara-Centre which represents the Vril-Force that is involved in this area, as a creative-force. This is the centre of the 'Life-Force', and used in the Martial Arts. 

Middle Cauldron - Son - Blood - This is the Warrior-Aethlinga Caste (Earl) which also includes the 'arms' (the area associated with the Warrior). This also embodies the idea of the 'White Blood Cells' which are the 'Einheriar' who protect the World Order-Cosmic Order (and the ordered working of the body). This is the Heart-Centre and the Solar-Plexus Centre. 

Upper Cauldron - Odroerir - Spirit - This is the Priest-King Caste and the highest caste (Kon) which is the area of inspiration; Rig-Earl masters the Holy Runes, inspired in this area by the Mead of Inspiration. (The term 'inspire' is itself connected to 'spirit'.) 

We must look now at the parallel traditions from other Indo-European sources that give more understanding of the Mead of Inspiration -

Amrita -

The alexir of immortality

Deathlessness

Nectar of the Gods (i.e. Honey of the Gods)


Ambrosia -

Food of the Gods

No death


Immortality is the aim of the Aryan Initiation as can be seen in various different traditions, from India to Egypt and all over the area covered by the Indo-Europeans. Miguel Serrano uses the term A-mor for this, which is a mirror of 'Roma' and means 'No death'. There is also a secret contained in the legends that tell of the re-awakening of the Pineal Gland, for this area has the Amun's Horn or Ammon's Horn and we can see that Amun is The Hidden God. The terms below relate to Amun -

Amun - Egypt

Aum - India 

Amen - Christian Bible

This is the area where we have to retain the Blood Memory when we pass into shadow, through the ritual outlined elsewhere, taken from the Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean. This fits with what we have been doing and can now be incorporated into our work. 

We can also equate the Three Cauldrons with the Three Worlds (or layers) -

UR - Hara - Hela/Niflheim

LAGU - Centre - Midgard

AS - Upper - Asgard

Hela is 'cool-cold', yet the name Niflheim stems from the same root as the term 'nebula' and refers to a 'mist'; Niflheim is the 'Mist-World' and placing the Ur-Rune here suits that well. Midgard is the 'world in motion' since it is always becoming and under the Laws of Wyrd (Wyrd = to become). Asgard stems from a Root *as- which means 'to be' and refers to the state of being rather than becoming. Miguel Serrano associates this area (Third Eye-Crown) to the Swan and to Thule, and we find that swans swim in the waters of the Well of Wyrd. 

In our Wodenic Lore the HE-SHE referred to by Miguel Serrano is ER-ERCE, which can be found in the charm for the land. The 'Third Eye' is the Eye of the Dragon (Dra-urg) and here is the Fire of the Vril.

As I have stated at the start, the aim is now to (re-)create a working spiritual discipline (Ar-Kan Rune-Lag) that will counter the counter-initiation which seeks to submerge the ego into the 'All' or 'One'. In order to do so we need to use a working system that can be found in our own Northern Lore, even though we may have to look elsewhere to find what we need, and further develop what we know. We have a 'hero' in the form of the Divine Fool since this is Parsifal ('Pure Fool') or Percival (Perce a val = 'to cross the valley'). Parsifal is the Son of the Widow and is Horus, Hamlet, Ing, Wid-Ar, HelgiH and similar archetypes. Just as important is his comrade - Gawain. 

Also important to these ideas is the son of Parsifal - Lohengrin - for he is the Swan-Knight (Sceaf) who leaves behind him three treasures -

A Sword

A Horn

A Ring

The Horn is needed to awaken Gods and Men to the Final Battle, the Sword is needed to fight that Final Battle, and the Ring of Power is needed to win that battle. The mystery of the Kaivalia is found in the Kaula Tantra and the hidden order that held these secrets was the Kula Brotherhood. In this we have yet another 'hero' to look to for guidance - Hercules or Herackles, whose name stems from Hera (Heri) - Kula. His 'Twelve Labours' go through the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Our struggle is the Blood-Struggle and we have 'labours' to do when we take this up. We wage this Holy War on a physical-psychical-spiritual level, and we have to work on all of these levels. 

Far too many of the 'New Age' adherents try to tell us that we can awaken the Kundalini through a 'forced' awakening, which may well happen, but will not produce the spiritual elevation we seek. This will awaken through our own spiritual development, and through the deeds we do in life, the heroic deeds that aid the survival of our Folk and that aid the Gods in their struggle. All the 'wishy-washy' mumbo-jumbo of the 'New-Agers' will never achieve the evolutionary jump from Man to Superman, which can only be done through the strengthening of the ego and the transmuting of the ego (lead) into the Ultimate I (Gold). 

The Second Merseburg Charm

Phol and Wodan rode into the woods,

There Balder's foal sprained its foot.

It was charmed by Sinthgunt, her sister Sunna;

It was charmed by Frigga, her sister Volla;

It was charmed by Wodan, as well he knew how;

Bone-sprain, like blood-sprain,

Like limb-sprain:

Bone to bone, blood to blood,

Limb to limb - like they were glued.

This is taken from the Old Saxon version and I have retained the name Wodan rather than Woden. This charm is also known in the Orkney Islands in a Xtian version -

Our Savious rade,

His fore-foot slade;

Our Saviour lichtit down.

Sinew to sinew, vein to vein,

Joint to joint, and bane to bane,

Mend thou in God's name. 

This is called the Wristing or Wresting Thread because to be effective a thread with Nine Knots on it is used at regular distances, and the charm is repeated at every knot. Another version can be found in the Shetland Islands -

The foal rade,

And the foal slade;

He lighted

And he righted.

Set joint to joint,

Bone to bone,

And sinew to sinew.

Heal in the Holy Ghost's Name!

Since these charms can only be found in the Germanic areas and do not seem to have been known by the Norse, it would seem strange that they have become known in this remote area of Scotland, although there are very old records of the Saxons invading the Orkneys, but this is around 300 CE. Before moving on we shall put this into its Old English version -

Dryhten rad,

fola slad,

se lihtode,

and rihtode;

set lidh to lidhe

eic swa ban to bane

sinewe to sinewe.

Hal wes dhu, on dhaes Halgan Gastes naman!

(I have used 'dh' for the 'th' sound).

At first glance this is a simple healing charm, but when we look at it more carefully we find that this simple piece may well be a part of Aryan Mythology that has been almost lost. In fact it may be connected to the Myth of Balder, and to the events that ended the Golden Age of Peace and Plenty. But first we need to look at the god-names used in this charm -

Phol - This is also Pol, Fal, Fol which are titles of Balder; it is Pol's foal that sprains his foot. We can find the name 'Pol' in various parts of England, as listed by Kemble -

Palgrave - Norfolk & Suffolk

Polebrook - Northampton

Polesworth - Warwickshire

Polhampton - Hampshire

Polstead - Suffolk

Polstead - Surrey (near Wansborough - 'Woden's Burg')

Polsden - Hampshire

Polsdon - Surrey

Polsley & Polthorn

Poling - Sussex

To this list of Kemble's I am going to add Polegate which is in East Sussex just a couple of miles from the Long Man of Wilmington. The name is said to mean 'Gate to the Pool' but may be in doubt since many Old English names are mere 'guesses' I am afraid. However, since a 'pool' can be from a 'spring' then there may indeed be a subtle link - we shall see that in Germany Pol is linked to fountains and springs. 

The German name Fal is linked to place-names connected to springs or fountains -

Phole's Fountain - Thuringia

Fal's Fountain - Frankish Steigerwald

Balder's Well - Reinphalz

Also the name Westphalia comes from Westfalia and is named after Fal or Pol. We can also find similar charms as this Germanic Charm in Poland (Pol-land), in Belarus and in the Ukrainian Polesye (Pol-esye) which is between the Ukraine and Belarus. 

We have Sinthgunt and Sunna, the latter being the Sun-Dis, the former most likely Nanna, the wife of Balder. Then comes Frigga and Fulla, wife of Wodan and her sister. Now, here we have an array of the High-Goddesses and yet they are unable to charm the foal's foot to right. This can only suggest to us that some form of Dark Sorcery was involved in this, and that the breaking of the foal's foot was a deliberate and malicious act. We may suggest Loki as the culprit, and I am here going to tell a tale which became the subject of an article in an Odinist magazine many years ago, which suggested to me another meaning of the Second Merseburg Charm. I have said all this before but it is well worth putting in again, since this may have a deeper meaning than I first thought of. 

The Witch-of-the-Eclipse (Loki) lures the Sun-God into the forest; there he steals the Golden Ring, twists the feet of the Sun-God's Foal, and imprisons the Sun-God in the Underworld. Woden charms the Foal's Foot  back to right and the Sun-God escapes his bonds, flies into the heavens again, and the Golden Ring is returned.

This, of course, all occurs in ar var alda - the Dawn-Time. We shall now see how this myth fits the latter part of the Golden Age, perhaps just prior to the slaying of the Sun-God at the hands of Loki. This simple legend can also give us the symbolism connected to the Sun-God Balder - the Lord of the Golden Age. We should note the involvement of Loki the Trickster in this again. 

The symbol of Balder is the Sun-Wheel, which is a Circle ringed round an equal-armed Cross; this symbolises Balder as the Sun-God of the Golden Age. This is the Golden Ring mentioned in the tale. This Golden Ring is stolen by Loki, which leaves us the equal-armed Cross. The 'Foal's Feet' (the feet of the Cross) are 'twisted' and what emerges is the Fylfot-Swastika. This is symbolic of Baldaeg in the Underworld (as he is now, until his emergence after Ragnarok and the Doom of the Gods). Woden charms the 'twisted' legs of the Foal, which then becomes an equal-armed Cross again. Baldaeg is freed from the Underworld and flies high into the sky again, regaining the Golden Ring - we are back to the Sun-Wheel. We have thus a clear symbolism attached to Pol-Baldaeg -

Sunwheel - Solar Cross - Fylfot-Swastika - Solar Cross - Sunwheel

The name Fylfot is thus a corruption of Fol's Foot or Foal's Foot and this would be the widdershins (anti-sun-wise) version which moves against the flow of Time. This is the Hidden Symbol that was activated from another 'world' in order to create a change in the order of things, and to create a New Order. Baldaeg is the Lord of the Golden Age and it may be that his symbol is also the Black Sun which shines from the Lower World and which activates the Sacred Blood in our Folk. 

On the night of August 10th 1999, prior to the Solar Eclipse of August 11th, eight Millenium Ale bottles showing an Old Man with a blond-haired, blue-eyed child were buried in the shape of a Fylfot-Swastika in a secret location near to the Long Man - and have been there ever since. Each bottle contained a runic formula and invocation, and these were 'powered' on the morning of August 11th at 11,00 am when the 'sun turned black'. The next day the 'hot stars' (Perseid Meteor Shower) 'fell from the skies'. This was the dawn of a new era, and the conception of the Age of Ing. The Sign of Ing appeared in the heavens at the same time (the planetary positions showed the Ing-Rune or Solar-Cross, the latter may indicate that at this time the 'Foal's Feet' were righted). 

The Sun & Moon (and Venus-Freya not shown) were in the House of the White Dragon (Leo), with Mars (The War-God) in Scorpio, Saturn (The Malevolent One * - at this time) in Taurus, and Uranus (God of the New Age) in Aquarius (The New Age). This formed a Solar-Cross and/or an Ing-Rune which is the Sign of the Son of Man(-nus) this being Ingwe or Ing. The Solar Eclipse is symbolic of Baldaeg in the Underworld (Odainsacre) where he is 'imprisoned'. This is the Black Sun in a sense. The symbolism (as Nostradamus stated) shows that evil and war would reign (Saturn and Mars), and we can see from this that the Sons of Saturn (Loki) were responsible for the 'War of Terror' that we are seeing today. The fall of the Twin Towers heralded the end of the world-age and the world-order that existed. 

The Resurrection of Baldaeg will herald the coming of a new Golden Age, and after the Fires of Surt have cleansed the worlds a new and prestine world will emerge from the seas that put out the flames - this is not a new 'creation' since we know that Baldaeg and Lif & Lifthrasir were taken into Odainsacre, together with all that was good and pure, all that was non-warlike. This new world will arise whole from the seas, seeded with all forms of life that existed in the last Golden Age. This we know from the knowledge of Odainsacre, the legend from Iran that has Yima save the 'seeds of life' in a special container, and 'Noah's Ark' which saves the seeds of life from the last Great Flood that destroyed the Golden Age. All these contain seeds of truth relating to the sinking of Atlantis which is a myth remembering the ending of the Golden Age. But there is also an occult legend of the rising of Atlantis and this refers to the arising of this new world and a New Order. 

(*) Saturn has been transformed into 'Satan' and chained by the Rings of Ice which we can equate to the Ring of Power forged by Sauron in the Lord of the Rings. This Ring of Power can only be destroyed by Fire - the names of some of the moons of Saturn should be carefully noted, since most planets and stars are called after Greek or Roman Gods -

Skadi

Skoll

Greip

Hyrrokin (whose legend suggests she is Heid-Gulveig-Angerboda)

Mundilfari (God of Cyclic Time)

Jarnsaxa

Narvi

Bergelmir

AEgir

Suttungr

Bestla

Farbauti (Father of Loki)

Hati

Thymr

Surtr

Kari ('Time')

Fenrir (Fenris Wolf)

Ymir

Loge (Loki as Fire-God - Destructive Fire)

Fornjot

Saturday (Saturn's Day) is 'Loki's Day' and the 'Sabbath', named from a name for Saturn - Shabbathai. The symbol of Saturn is a 'cube' from which we get the Xtian Cross (a cube opened up). The hexagon (Star of Satan) appears at the north pole of Saturn, and the eye (Eye of Sauron) appears at the south pole. The Rings of Saturn bind the ancient God of the Golden Age and only Surt's Fire will free him when the Ice is melted. As we can see, the original God of the Golden Age was Kronos, and if we see him as the 'God of Time' then we can see that Mundilfori (God of Cyclic Time) is a name of one of the moons. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, and with the hexagon this suggests that the number 6 is connected to this planet. We need to note that Miguel Serrano suggests that rather than living in the Iron Age we are now living in the Lead Age, and the metal of Saturn is - Lead. Lead is the metal that is transformed into Gold by the skilled alchemists. 

It is said that the Age of Pisces started with a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the House of Pisces, and that Saturn was the planet of Israel and Jupiter the planet of rulership. This obviously heralded the 'Days of the Messiah' (a name that can mean 'Serpent'). In the Norwegian Rune-Poem we find that the Thurs-Rune is associated with Saturn. The names of the moons of Saturn are that of the Thurs-Clans or the Jotun-Clans. The Thurs-Rune or Thorn-Rune can be a very malevolent rune, though it is also associated with Thunor-Thor and the Hammer of Thor. The rune itself shows the Ur-Hammer or Ur-Axe which was made of stone and not iron as in later times. 

Gifts of the Gods

Found on land,

little maegan,

Ash and Embla

Ur-laug not.

Ond they had not,

Od they had not,

la nor laeti

nor lito goda.

Ond gave Woden,

Od gave Hoenir,

La gave Lodur,

And litr goda.

We shall analyse this now. Ash and Embla are here symbolised by two trees, one male and one female. They are 'found on land', indeed by the sea in one account, but they have little maegan (strength/might/power) and do not have a destiny or Urlaug. The trees represent the vegetative state that these were already in, their physical state which was devoid of the things that the gods gave to them.

They did not have ond which is 'spirit' or 'vital breath'; they did not have od which is the ego, understanding, memory, will and divine inspiration; they had neither la which is blood, which is the power of motion which sets apart animals and man from the plant-world, or laeti which is 'manners' and 'bearing', and the way we act and move; neither did they have litr goda which is the Astral Body which gives shape and character to the physical body, and is sometimes called the Subtle Body. This latter is the 'Inner Body' which is made in the image of the Gods, and the outer (physical) body depends upon the condition of the litr.

It was Woden who gave spirit or vital breath since he is the 'Wind-God', not just in the sense of the wind we know of and encounter, but in the sense of the 'movement of air' at a subtle level which is spiritual. We may see Woden in the storm-wind but this is at a physical level, and he works on deeper levels too. Hoenir gives Od which relates to what is usually called the 'soul' and to the 'ego' which makes us individual. We can see here that these creative acts are not a one-off in some far-distant past, because the soul is brought to the mother prior to every birth of man, brought by Hoenir. We still remember this in the 'fairy-tale' where the Stork (Hoenir is also called langifotr which means 'long-legs') brings the soul to the mother. 

The Stork is the Creator-God walking in the Ocean of Chaos, brooding over the Primal Soup (Tohu-Bohu), and who hatches the Cosmic Egg. This can be found in Egyptian Mythology and other sources. The fruit out of which the child is developed is grown in the World Tree, and is called manna mjotudr which matures and falls from the branches into the Mythic Pool to be fetched by the Stork-God (Hoenir), the winged servant of the Gods, to be born out of the mother. 

In one Old English text Hoenir is referred to under the name Haene which itself means 'Long-Legged', and this is related to hohni which means 'White Bird' (either a Swan or a Stork, these symbols may be interchangeable). Hoenir is also referred to as aurkonungr - 'mire-king' - which refers to his role as either Stork-Swan which swims in the 'mire' around the waters. 

Lodur (who is not Loki as some would have us believe) gives blood, but he also gives the Divine Form of the Gods - the 'Divine Spark' (which is the Friction-Fire at one level). This is the Litr Goda ('Light of the Gods') referred to in the text. The term la (blood) has to be related to the Lagu-Rune which would refer to 'blood' as well as 'water', and thus also to the 'sap' that rises in the vegetative world. The term litr refers to something that can be seen, but cannot be felt, i.e. it refers to a non-physical concept. We could see this as the aura in modern terms. 

The Havamal (93) tells us that beautiful women have 'joyous fair litr' and in the sense of someone being clever and intelligent we have always said they are 'bright', whereas those who are not clever are 'dim'. No amount of tampering by the 'Cultural Marxists' will alter this Eternal Truth! In some people the aura (litr goda) is pronounced and can even be 'felt' by others around them - especially spiritually advanced beings. 

There is also another slant to this, since the outward appearance of the body can be altered by the emotions, which influence the litr. This we can see when we become 'pale' or when we 'blush' since it is the emotions which trigger these physical responses. We can also note that the outward appearance of the body could then be influenced by how we think and what we do - which may account for the degenerate types that abound in our era at the end of the Warg-Age. The litr lives on after death. 

I am going to equate Lodur with Hama-Heimdall since Hama is a Fire-God (Creative Fire), and he is Agni of the Rig Vedas. I have equated Hama with Ing-Sceaf in the past, though they may be different forms of one Archetypal Being. In the Rig Vedas we are told that Matarishvan brought Agni from the heavens, 'from the gods very far away' and gave him as a gift to the Bhrigus, who concealed him in a wood (Ask-Embla?) before giving him to Manu (The First Man). Bhrigu 'brought forth' Agni - he kindled the Need-Fire, and the name 'Bhrigus' means 'flame' or 'blaze'. 

Now, Agni (Inga) is the Fire-in-Water since he is the Lightning in the Clouds, but he is also the Sun, and also the sap in the plants and the blood in Man. We have a direct link to Hoenir here with the la or blood. We find that Angiras (Ang-iras) first kindled Agni; he was the first half-mythical ancestor of the Priestly Race, and became a name of Agni. Agni, in respect to the blood in man, is thus the Vital Spark or Flame of Life in Man, and the Vital Force in all life. There is also a figure called Atharvan who draws Agni forth by the Friction-Fire; atharva (Skt.) means 'flame' and atharyu (Skt.) means 'blazing'. Agni is Atar in Iranian Lore. 

The descendants of the Bhrigu and Bhriguians are called Bhargavans, and Agni (like Sceaf) came over the sea to these people. Like Sceaf he was adopted by them and dwelt as a 'immortal amongst mortals'. He became the first patriarch and first priest. In the name 'Bhargavans we find the Aryan Root * bharg which means 'to shine' and we can find a direct counterpart in the Teutonic Berchter which stems from a Teutonic Root * berhta meaning 'bright', 'clear', 'light' or 'shining'. Clearly the Bhargavans are the Shining Ones and we are here going back to the times of Hyperborea-Thule or Scandi in the Far North. We have here a clear indication that the 'creation' of Man as Ask and Embla was the 'creation' of the Shining Ones or Arya. 

The name Bhrigu and Bharga could be linked to Brosingamen since this is the 'Necklace of Fire' worn by Freya and retrieved from Loki by Hama. Here, again, this is the Fire retrieved from the Waters (a lake). The Brosingamen Necklace is also connected to the Xvarena or Hvarena of Iranian Myth which is the sole property of the Aryan Race. We could see in this the Flame of Kingship which would also be the gift of Lodur. Indeed, having linked Ing-Sceaf-Hama this would be the Gift of Ing which is Kenaz (Fire of the Konungr) and which is stated clearly on the White Stone of Ing. 

Snorri adds the term hroering to Od which means 'agitated movement' or 'excitement' and is also found in Od-roerir. The term hroering means 'roaring' which gives us Roaring Spirit in the name Odroerir. Woden is the 'Master of Od' (Wod) but it is Hoenir who gives this to man - though Hama-Heimdall may be an aspect of Woden which would make more sense here.

When the spirit (ond) dominates the body throughout life the physical body become divine and even after death the physical remains are very powerful, emitting blessings and happiness around it. In this way the grave-mound may develop a kind of 'branch' from the main litr that passes on, which is termed a Hael-Wight, or 'Good Wight'. If the being has the opposite traits in life then a U-Wight or 'Bad Wight' can develop and the place would become negative. This may also account for negative or 'black-spots' as they are called. This is why grave-mounds are so powerful, and were placed near to the dwellings of the living kin to the dead. 

We should also note the fact that the dead should not be over-mourned, since they would be forced to return to the land of the living, though they would not want to do so. We have a clear account of this in the Myth of Helgi Hundingsbane where Sigrun mourns him so much that he has to return from Valhalla to ride to his own grave-mound. There he comforts Sigrun and assures her of his love for her and his devotion to her, and that they will meet once more in the Lower World of Hela. He then returns to Valhalla again. 

We can see not one jot of evidence in our Northern Myths to prove that Aryan Man (Northern Man) evolved from an ape. Nor do we find Aryan Man created from the mud of the earth as in the Hebraic texts. Aryan Man was created from the noble Ash-Tree which reaches towards the heavens - this is symbolic of the essence of the First Man into which the Flame of Life was placed. The vegetative basis of Man was formed from the noble tree that grows in the Earth, but which reaches to the heavens and the Gods. This was why Iggdrasil is the White Tree and represents the White Race at this level. Yes, it has been battered and beaten, decaying and is dying, but it will not pass away completely, for it will be regenerated after Ragnarok - or a 'sapling' of the White Tree will be found, as happens in the Lord of the Rings. 

Finally, it is Hoenir that gave the ego to Man which we have evolved in order that we may 'know ourselves' and be self-aware; to destroy the ego as most of the so-called 'religions' and 'spiritual disciplines' seek to do is to throw away the legacy given to us by Hoenir, and return to the Primal Soup. The Gift of Hoenir has to be strengthened, not destroyed, and transmuted into the Absolute I which transforms the litr into the Immortal Body. 

We are told that Ask and Embla did not have Ur-laug (Orlog) but the gifts given to them by Woden-Hoenir-Lodur empowered them and were given that they may fulfil their Ur-Laug or Racial Wyrd which was laid down for this new race of man. What we are speaking of here is the Divine Destiny of the Arya and not mankind as a whole. These gifts were given to the Ur-Race of the Arya and are retained in the few who are fulfilling this Divine Destiny down to our times. The mystery resides in the Sacred Blood. (Again, this mystery is found in the White Stone of Ing where the Ing-Rune symbolises the Sacred Blood. The Divine Fire of Kingship resides in the Sacred Blood - Sang Real. It is the 'Holy Gral' that we have to rediscover - that is the Mystery of our Age.) 

Since the First Man and First Woman did not originally have a Divine Mission, and had little maegan ('little power' or 'little might'), nor did they have the Gifts of the Gods given here, we can assume that our way out of the mess we are in is to redevelop these powers and to strengthen our maegan as individuals and as a Folk. There are ways to do this as individuals and also as a group, but we shall leave this to another time. 

* There is no evidence to suggest that 'Embla' means 'Elm' as has been suggested, since the name itself does not follow that course; there could be a link to 'ember' but that is just speculation. There may be a pairing between the Ash-Tree and Fire here, but we cannot be sure. I am going to stick my neck out here (as usual) and suggest this may be the case, that Aryan Man was made from the essence of the Noble Tree (Earth-Heaven) and the essence of Fire. The Arya were a Race of Kon(ungr) and Kan-Kon is the Fire-Rune. Even in death this Kan-Fire remained in the Long-Barrow and Round-Barrow as we are told in the OE Rune-Poem. This is the Pine-Torch and the Fire is invoked by the Rune of Kon - the 'Heil Salute' which is formed from this rune-stave in its English form. 

** The trio of Woden-Hoenir-Lodur can be found in Woden-Will-Weoh, which tells us that Hoenir also gives 'The Will' which is a most powerful force in Aryan Man. Lodur is thus Weoh who gives the Holy Blood, the Aryan Archetype, and the Light of the Gods. 

This post is of extreme importance since the details within it totally disprove the idea that Man (Aryan Man) descended from the apes or from mud-created beings. This is the key to arguing the origins of our Folk and to countering the lies propagated by the Great Enemy. The 'Aryan Race' may not exist as an entity today, but it is an archetype and it is a projection for the future. It is something to strive and struggle for, and in doing so go 'beyond' the mankind of today, to 'overcome' the 'man' of today, to reach to the stars for a new Race of Man. Origins are important, just as is Destiny.

Loki the Jotun (Revised)

Throughout the decades that I have followed the path of Odinism and Wodenism I have seen many attempts at trying to 'rehabilitate' Loki in order to fit him into the pantheon of gods, and even as a god to be worshipped. This seems to stem from the fact that he is the blood-brother of Woden from very ancient times, but he is not of the stock of the gods, but of the Jotun. Neither is Loki the dark-side of Woden, for though Woden does have a dark side this is certainly not the same as that of Loki. In my own opinion Loki is the polar-opposite of Woden, which could well explain his actions, and also certain kennings that could be applied to him rather than to Woden as they have been. 

Whereas Woden may take a dark path, and also sometimes a rather dishonourable path, this is done to protect or to enhance gods and men, but Loki's actions from the very start are nothing short of malicious and downright destructive. Loki is certainly an Agent of Change and an Agent of Chaos but the gods are there to uphold the Cosmic Order and World Order, and the Arya is the race that does the Will of the Gods in Middle-Earth. Loki's actions gradually break down the order of things, and eventually lead to total destruction of Gods and Men. Looking at the myths we find the true nature of Loki, which I am going to go into here.

The Golden Age comes to an end due to the actions of Loki, this is made clear when we look at the first war that broke out in the worlds. We need to consider that at this time the Elves and Dwarfs were the beneficient agents of Nature, and it is here that the trouble starts. One clan of Elves - the Sons of Ivalde - had made the following for the gods - Gungnir, the Spear of Woden, Sif's Golden Hair, and Frey's ship named Skidbladnir. The ever-wily and malicious Loki approached another Elf-Clan - the Sons of Sindre - and wagered that they could not produce treasures for the gods that were just as good as those of the Sons of Ivalde. 

The Sons of Sindre oblige by making the treasures listed above, and the gods are then made to decide between the two clans as to whose work is the best. The gods come down on the side of the Sons of Sindre, and in doing so antagonise this Elf-Clan creating a rift between the Gods and the Agents of Nature. The Sons of Ivalde promptly ceased to serve the gods and allied with their enemies the Frost-Giants. The war between the gods and elves was accompanied by a massive earthquake when the Giantesses Fenja and Menja threw the world-mill out of balance and the axis of the earth was tilted, with it the first Fimbul Winter set in over the Northlands. This first war was due to the whiles of Loki whose actions broke the peace of the world and caused the first wars involving gods, elves and men.

During the Golden Age the World-Mill churned out gold and plenty, but through the actions of the two Jotun-Maids it now turned our salt and sand - the world was drastically changed. The Frost-Giants took control of the Northlands and the Northern Folk were forced southwards, an action in itself which created chaos, disorder and kindred wars. Indeed, again due to the original action of Loki kindred wars flared up everywhere with the movement of tribes southwards into areas already occupied by other tribes. 

We need to add here that if the sequence of events is such that the treasures of the Sons of Ivalde were made at the end of the Golden Age, presumably because weapons would only be needed after it ended, then the Myth of Sif's Golden Hair also comes before the ending of the Golden Age. Briefly, this myth tells us that Loki cut off the hair of Sif, and was then forced to get the Sons of Ivalde to create for her a new head of Golden Hair. At first glance the cutting off of Sif's hair may seem a harmless prank, but when we consider who the goddess Sif is, and her role amongst the gods, then things appear in a totally different light. Sif is the Corn Goddess and her hair is the Golden Corn; Loki thus cuts off the power of the Golden Corn, and when the Elves fashion a substitute, that is exactly what it is - the substitution of an artificial product. Corn found in Egypt dating back over 2000 years has been found to be far superior to anything we grow today - we have lost the Ur-Corn in favour of an artificial corn, all due to the malicious whiles of Loki. 

Right from the start we have two simple but malicious acts that seem to be treated as 'pranks' by many scholars, but which when studied carefully are far more sinister and indeed are malicious in their intent - as we shall see. At first glance Loki is not involved in the first Great War in the Worlds, but his female counterpart - Gullveig - certainly is. Again, at first glance Gullveig would seem to be the innocent victim, but this is far from the case, as we shall show here. Some consider Gullveig to be Freya, but she hardly shows the essence of the Light-Goddess, even if (as we shall see) Freya has dabbled on the darker side - as did Woden. Gullveig is not Freya as Loki is not Woden - both are the polar-opposites of Woden and Freya, which is why they may seem to show similarities. 

Like Loki, Gullveig is a Jotun allowed into Asgard - Realm of the Gods - but as Loki is linked to Woden and the Asen, Gullveig is linked to Freya and the Wanen. Gullveig, as her Middle-Earth counterpart, Heid, roamed MIddle-Earth practising black sorcery and encouraging evil in men. It would appear from reading between the lines that as Heid did below, Gullveig did above. We find that Freya practises the Seidr-Magic, and it is she that teaches this to Woden. In certain texts Woden is accused of practising a debased and degenerate form of sorcery, and this could be Seidh-Sorcery. Indeed, in one particular legend Woden is banished from Asgard for practising Dark Sorcery, and when he is reinstated he bans all forms of Dark Sorcery from Asgard and Midgard. We can see here a clear hint that Gullveig was the one to introduce the Asen and Wanen to Dark Seidh-Sorcery through Freya and then Woden, and that this was the reason why the Asen-Gods decided to burn her - as a practitioner of Dark Witchcraft. 

The Gods of Asgard pierce Gullveig with spears and burn her, but three times she burns and three times is reborn or revived - her essence lives on. Her dark magical and terrible nature cannot be destroyed, as the gods find out. The argument that broke out between the Asen and Wanen would seem to be one of the responsibility for compensation and not for the slaying of Gullveig itself. It would seem that Frey's marriage to Gerda made Gullveig his kin, since Aurboda is the mother of Gerda and Gymer her father. Rather than seeing Freya as Gullveig, which certainly does not fit at all, I would go along with Viktor Rydberg who sees Gullveing as Aurboda, who is the mother of Gerda and thus then linked by marriage to the Wanen. Hence their demand for wer-gild. Since the demand was not met by the Asen, and Woden was obviously incensed by something said by the Wanen, the first Great War in the Heavens took place - paralleled by the first Great War on the Earth below. 

If, following Viktor Rydberg, Gullveig (*), Aurboda (*) and Angerboda are all the same, then The Lay of Hyndla 40,41 tells us that Loki found the burnt-heart of Gullveig and ate it. Since the heart is seen as the soul then Loki takes into himself the essence of this Female Evil and thus empowers this side of his androgyne nature. (For this reason the legends associated with blood-thirsty and evil vampires emphasise that a pointed stake must be thrust into the heart - in order to destroy the soul of the vampire as well as its body). Clearly the gods burnt the  form of Gullveig but the essence of her evil remained. 

Through Angerboda, Loki fathers the three monsters - Fenris Wolf, Iormungand Serpent, and Hell (I've used the English spelling on purpose here which will become clear later). Angerboda dwells in Ironwood, and this suggests that the gods banished her essence to this area of the East. Gullveig is also called Hrimnir's daughter who is the servant of Frigg when she dwelt in Asgard, but in Ironwood she is the mother of the Evil Wargs - she fostered the 'sons of world-ruin' that Loki will lead against the Gods. She had to be banished since her essence and soul could not be destroyed; at the same time Loki found her burnt heart and ate it, thus taking her essence into himself too. 

(*) Gullveig means Gold (gull) Power-Drink (veig) whereas Aurboda means Gold (aur) Fermenting-Liquid (boda from bodhi). Both names mean the same, which is why I follow Rydberg on this one. 

Voluspa 25-26 relates how the counsel of Asen and Wanen met to decide 'who had filled the air with foul treason' and who was responsible for delivering Woden's wife (Freya) to the Jotun - the latter which was again down to the wiles of Loki. The one found guilty was slain by Thunor, but we are not told details. The result of the war was that the Asen lost and victory was by the Wanen, or some accounts say a truce was declared and hostages exchanged. Whatever the case, in the end the two sides were reconciled and they formed one set of gods again. 

We have seen here how Gullveig had a counterpart in Middle-Earth, and we find that Loki also worked his evil in this world too. We find in certain legends concerning Hadding (Hearding) that Loki plots against Hadding possibly to gain favour with the triumphant Wanen who had backed Svipdag against Hadding. It is Woden who rescues Hadding from Loki's snares by taking him off to a safe place on Sleipnir. In this safe place Woden gives Hadding a drink which makes him have enormous strength, and it enables him to free himself from any bonds and fetters. This drink contained the Leifnir's Flames - which we shall not go into here. Hadding again falls into the hands of Loki who chains him and has a wild beast look over him. Woden charms the guards to sleep and Hadding bursts the fetters and slays the beast, eating the heart of the beast as directed by Woden. 

This appears to be a war between the Northern Teutons (backed by the Wanen) and the Eastern Teutons (backed by the Asen), in which Hadding is first defeated; Saxo ascribes this defeat to the whiles of Loki. Victor Rydberg covers this issue in great details in Teutonic Mythology, so I am not going to go into this here, but he has something of extreme importance to say on the subject of Loki -

"His purpose is to frustrate every effort to bring about reconciliation, and by means of persuasion and falsehoods to increase the enmity between Halfdan's descendants (i.e. Hadding) in order that they may mutually destroy each other."

Can we not now see that the last two World Wars were the work of Loki - the Enemy Within - since this is exactly the same historical workings as we have here in very ancient times. In this Loki backs one side over the other and both are decimated in the battles that he has caused. In fact we see Loki working on both sides in war after war after war. Note the phrase which fits today's world - 'in order that they may mutually destroy each other' which is exactly what is happening to our Folk today. 

We may also gleam a hint of the same evil force as Loki in the figure of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings, since Gollum is always by the side of the Shire-Folk, always seeking to kill them in order to regain the Ring of Power. Gollum, as Smeagol, slays his own kinsman, Deagol, in order to get the One Ring from him, and then becomes obsessed with the power of the Gold Ring. I have no idea where Tolkien got the idea of the Gollum or whether it relates to the Golem which was an artificial creature of a totally destructive nature formed by a Jewish Rabbi (*) in Prague, using Dark Sorcery. Both Loki and Gollum seem to have split-personalities, moving from normal to evil and back again, but with the darker side gradually becoming more dominant (**). Sauron - the Dark Lord - is another aspect of the same destructive and oppressive force, and he too is 'slain' but his 'spirit' still exists and rises once more in a later age. 

(*) I believe that Karl Marx was descended from this same Rabbi.

(**) It should be noted that Gollum's greed for the Ring of Power is his downfall, and it is he himself who finally brings an end to the evil of the world, since he falls (with the Ring) into the fires of Mount Doom.

The figure named blindi who tries to subvert Helgi Hundingsbane may well be that of Loki and not that of Woden. If we see the epithet blindi as meaning Loki here then we can see how being the polar-opposite to Woden he has the same titles on some occasions as Woden. 

We should not forget that it is Loki who is responsible for slaying the Sun-God, Balder, through his use (again) of another - Blind Hod. It is also Loki who stops the resurrection of Balder through shape-shifting into a Giantess. This act was due to his jealousy of the Sun-God and was obviously done at the last part of the Golden Age. It is clear that the Gods knew what was coming for Mimir prepared a place in Hela's Shining Plains for the last inhabitants of the Golden Age, and for Balder and Nanna who went there after. This was Odainsacre where dwelt the Asmegir - Lif and Liftthrasir. 

We find an instance of Loki leading the battles, for he is called 'leader of the warriors forward' and leader of the warriors back' in Thjodolf's poem Haustlaung and Eilif Gudrunson's Thorsdrapa, where he is connected to leading the battles between Teutonic Kinfolk. It is interesting to note that Woden leading the other side, creates the battle-array called svinfylkja which is the wedge-shaped formation (boar-snout) used by Hamal in battle. We can see from World War II how Wotan led one side against an alliance under the yoke of the Evil One - Loki. 

Loki is found, captured and bound, but breaks loose and is the one who leads the Armies of Destruction against the Gods at the very end - Ragnarok. It is Loki's Brood who have during the ages dwelt amongst the gods and amongst men, and have plotted for long their destruction from within. Weakened at the end by their toil, struggle and strife, gods and men are finally assailed by the full forces of Loki's Brood, leading the Jotun and Monsters of Chaos into the Final Battle. 

There is one more thing we need to look at concerning Gullveig-Loki and that concerns the dark magic that Heid-Gullveig practiced when going from house to house in Midgard. This is termed Seidh-Leikin in the legends. Leikin is the horseman of torture and death, and thus Heid-Gullveig practices a form of dark Seidh-Sorcery that brings to man disease and epidemics. We know from the Christian Bible that the Egyptians accused the Israelite Priests of using dark sorcery that produces diseases and epidemics, and also accusations were throw of the same type when the Black Death broke out. Since Loki ate her heart and took in here essence he too brings this destruction to mankind. 

When Loki is firmly bound order, stability and a healthy society can develop, but with the emancipation of Loki there follows degeneracy, unhealthy practices, decay, disease, war and conflict. We can see today the results of the emancipation of Loki's Brood with a world of epidemics, wars, degeneracy, filth, decay, and death all around us. 

It is also possible, as Rydberg points out, that the three Thurs-Maidens that came from Jotunheim were not, as some think (and I think I have been guilty of that too), the Wyrd Sisters (Norns) but were Heid-Gulveig-Angerboda in their triple-aspect, which is underlined when she is burned three times and comes alive again each time. This is when the trouble started!

There is another an far greater consequence of the first Great War of the Worlds, and that is the death of Mimir who is the Ur-Smith or Primal Craftsman. Mimir is the Guardian of the World Tree or White Tree (Yggdrasil) and its Watchman. His death removes this guardianship altogether, and at the same time the Seven Sons of Mimir ruled the seven seasons according to the Primal Cosmic Laws. These Seven Sons of Mimir go into a long sleep (Seven Sleepers - 'Sleep of the Ages')) and thus the White Tree (here representing the Aryan Race) withers and grows old, devoid of its regenerative powers. The Seven Sons of Mimir will only awaken when Hama-Heimdall blows the Giallarhorn, when they will pick up the Seven Swords to defend the Lower Worlds.

*  Again, when I spoke of 'Hell', using this spelling, this is not specifically Hel or Hela which is admittedly a place of Shadow and Darkness in part, but is also a place of Light and Green in other parts. Loki's daughter 'Hell' is of this Shadow-World. Odainsacre is in Hela as opposed to 'Hell' as I have put it. The Shadow-World within the Lower Realms is where the 'shadows' were called up in ancient times by dark black magicians. 

** In regard again to this 'Shadow-World' within the Lower World we have shown elsewhere how Black Sorcerers invoked and released such powers which resulted in the sinking of Atlantis. One figure that is rather a paradox and led a life which was degenerate was Aleister Crowley. Reading his 'Book of the Law' we see that his work was concerned with the creation of a Solar-Religion on a Nietzschean Ethic, but some of the things he actually did were rather strange, and certainly do not fit in with this work at all. Crowley used what is called 'Enochian Magic' to call up certain very chaotic and destructive 'demons' (for want of a better word), and there followed two rather devastating world wars. We can trace this 'Enochian Magic' back to a magician who lived at the time of Elizabeth I and who seems to have greatly influenced the society of the time. John Dee, with the aid of a man named Kelly, invoked the same 'demons' using this 'Enochian Magic' which was given to Dee and Kelly. In both cases we may find that an outside influence effected their work in some sinister way.

*** These Dark Forces also seem to be what H.P. Lovecraft called 'The Great Old Ones'; he seems to have got the stuff for his books from horrible dreams and nightmares. The object of these 'Great Old Ones' seems to be to turn man against man until they no longer exist. 

**** We should note in regard to the Jotun-Powers who seem to be antagonistic towards Gods and Men but at the same time some marry into the God-Clans, that this can be explained when we consider that there are not one Jotun-Clan but two distinct and different Jotun-Clans. Ymir bore a son (possibly Mimir) and a daughter (Bestla = 'Best Blood') from under his armpit - i.e. these were Sweat-Born Jotun. This was the Noble Jotun-Race, as opposed to the ignoble race which he produced from his legs. We have confirmation of this in the Rig Veda where the lowest caste is produced from the feet - the Sudra-Caste who are the non-Initiate Caste of slaves. So the Asa-Gods descended from the Noble Jotun-Clan through Bor's marriage to Bestla. This would also go some way to explaining the phenomena that the Ignoble-Jotun have always allied with (or stirred up to revolt) the slave-caste, one fine example being Marxist Communism which was the 'Revolt of the Masses'. This was also the case in the French Revolution and all other 'Red Revolutions' that have happened in history - going back into ancient times.

We have an account in The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky that the early Second Race were the fathers of the 'Sweat-Born' and that the later Second Race were the 'Sweat-Born'. This fits with the idea that Ymir produced a Boy-Girl offspring from under his armpit - one of the areas where we sweat most. 

From the Iranian Bundahisn we find the following - 

'Auharmazd (Ahura-Mazda) brought forth a sweat upon Gayomart, moreover Aurharmazd formed that sweat into the youthful body of a man of fifteen years.'

I suppose that we can see 'sweat' as symbolic of the 'Fire-from-Water' since this is liquid that is formed through the act of heat (fire) in the body. The hot liquid produced would constitute Fire-from-Water. The feet also sweat too, but this may even refer to the more foul-smelling sweat produced by the feet. 

What we find is the Noble Jotun are joined in kinship with the Sons of Buri through the marriage of Bor and Bestla, but the Sudra-Jotun go their way as the Sons of Darkness - the Light-Powers and Dark-Powers have separate and opposite destinies, as decreed from the beginning. Rydberg may be correct in seeing Mimir as the brother of Bestla since Mimir is always close to Woden, and even in death Woden charms his head in order to be able to speak with it when this is necessary. 



Rydberg also touches on the role played by Wayland (Volund) in this, and this role is rather an evil role in that he considers him to be one of the Sons of Ivalde who turned against the Gods after the quarrel between the Elf-Kins. This is not a subject to touch here and would need a great deal more study to consider whether this is right or not. 

Germanic Tribes in Britain

I have covered this topic on numerous occasions, but due to the importance of the arguments put forward I am here going to look at another aspect of the subject. Now, it should be understood that there is nothing new in the material covered, since this is historical records (whether accurate or not we will perhaps never know), but the material has been mostly overlooked, in some cases because it does not fit with the prevailing dogma that the 'Celts' were in Britain prior to the 'Anglo-Saxon invasions', and that all of the tribes were thus 'Celtic' - even though (as I will show) the evidence is piled high against this idea. 

The thorn-in-the-side of this idea seems to lie in one part with what is termed the Belgae who were not one tribe, but a confederation of tribes, many of which Julius Caesar referred to as being Germanic in origin, also speaking a Germanic Language. Confirmation of this seems to come from a strange source, that of a work called The White Goddess by Robert Graves, who, incidentally, is anti-English, anti-Germanic and strongly pro-Celtic - so he has no axe to grind on this subject. The evidence that I am putting forward here is not so much historical (which is never fully factual anyway) but legendary and mythological.

In a Welsh work Cod Goddeu ('Battle of the Trees') we find a legendary battle between Bran, represented by the Alder-Tree, and Gwydion, represented by the Ash-Tree. Immediately something striking hits us - Gwydion/Wydion is similar to the name Woden whose tree is the Ash-Tree (in Norse Myth anyway). Indeed, Gwydion is the son of the god Don, who some Celtic scholars see as a later male version of the goddess Danu, though this may not necessarily be the case. The root of both Wydion-Don is DN, which is again the root of Odin/Woden, and the name 'Don' or 'Donnus' may be a 'father' with the 'son' having the same roots of the name. Graves traces this battle between the two distinct cultures to the area of the South of England, and at the core of which was Wiltshire. Here we are in the realm of the Belgae. 

Legend tells us that the Coritani, based in the Midlands, were from Northern Europe and dwelt amongst the tribes of this area after raiding here; indeed their title suggests the koryos which is a Greco-Latin form of our heri, which would have made them like Vikings who raided and then settled the area. So we have two clear suggestions that Germanic Tribes did exist here in England well before the later 'invasions'. It has been suggested that the Belgae may have been linked to the Fir Bolg who invaded Ireland in ancient times. 

We now turn to a Roman named Procopius of Caesarea, born in Caesarea in Palestine in the fifth century CE. According to Procopius the land called Brittia was occupied by Britons, Frisians and Angles, and his account is earlier than the first 'invasions' under Hengest and Horsa. Again, we have an account of Germanic Tribes being here in England already, and indeed well established here. If these tribes had merged with the Belgae Tribes then this would account for the total lack of any Welsh words in this area of the country. 

There is another stumbling-block to the concept that the English were already here, and that is the controversy over the name 'Angles'. Various spurious attempts have been made to take the name as meaning 'bend', presumably from the term 'angle', or even 'fishermen', no doubt from 'angler'. Would it not be far easier to derive the name 'Angle' or 'Engle' from the root-words that make up the title Ingwe or Ingui -

ANG   ENG   ING   ONG   UNG

The Engles or Angles were the descendants of Ingwe, which we know to be right from the name Ingvaeones given to the peoples of the areas some of the English dwelt. Variants of these root-names exist all over Britain, indeed in the 'Celtic' areas such as Ireland and Scotland - Aengus, Oenghus, Angus etc. 

When we recognise that the English are the Sons of Ing even more surprising results come to light. In a German legend Hengest and Horsa were said to have been the sons of the Duke of Engern - again we see the root Eng appear. Here, indeed, we now find a further link between the Angles and the Saxons, since the Duchy of Engern is near to the Teutoburg Forest, and this area in the eighth century CE was occupied by the Angrarii - once more the prefix Ang- comes into this argument. These occupied the three subdivisions of Saxony, Westfalahi, and Ostfalahi - which we know were occupied by the Saxons. This would suggest that the names 'Angle' and 'Saxon' were interchangeable, and the two tribes had long been linked together. Legend has it that the Angrarii invaded Westphalia under Yglo Lascon. Their legends also say that Vergest was the father of Hengest and Horsa, and he also had a daughter named Svava ('Swan') which if I am correct fits with the Frisian legend of Hengest and Horsa. 

From all this we can gather that the Angles, Saxons and Frisians were on a par with the Britons in these islands, and that the Belgae were a confederation of tribes that could have included some of these. Two of the Germanic Tribes mentioned as part of the Belgae were the Eburones and the Sicambri/Sigambri the latter which we have shown to be the Wolsungas as the Sigambrian Franks. So we have a clear reference to a Wolsunga presence here in England during the first part of the Age of Christ. There can hardly be doubt as to the fact that the name Gwydion/Wydion (*) was not Welsh originally but was Germanic, and referred to Woden. Such must have been the influence of these Germanic Folk that the legends and myths of their gods was absorbed by the Britons, and kept by the Welsh or Gauls as part of theirs. 

(*) The 'g' at the beginning of 'Gwydion' would not have been sounded, this being a silent consonant; we are left with Wydion which is sounded like Woden, a 'coincidence' that cannot be dismissed lightly. The Welsh version of 'William' has had a 'g' added to the front of it, which further emphasises the correctness of this argument. 'William' is a Germanic loan-name.

How old this legend of the conflict between Bran (Alder) and Gwydion (Ash) goes back we cannot tell but we are certainly taken back well before the time of Hengest and Horsa. We also have a god named Nodens whose name is very much like Odin/Woden but whom we know very little of. We do know that an alternative to 'Woden' was 'Hooden', so to link 'Nodens' too is not really so far fetched. We are finding more and more scholars who have studied this subject and are coming to the conclusion that the history taught to us is some way off the mark. 

We have said this before, that the only reason why scholars in the past assumed that the English Tribes pushed the 'Welsh' into what is now Wales was because the area we know as England was virtually devoid of any Welsh-Celtic terms. The only other explanation could be that there were kindred Germanic Tribes here already, and that the newcomers would have blended into these tribes without much change in language, apart from localised dialects, of course. This is the logical conclusion to the problem.

There are 'Anglo-Saxon' grave-finds in Kent whose skeletons bear no difference to that of much earlier Bronze Age finds - so we are gradually beginning to look even further back in time. In the end we may actually find proof that the English dwelt here in very ancient times, indeed as far back as to At-al-land.