Thursday, December 31, 2020

What Once Was - The 31st of December 1993

 

AN ÅS IN THE DEEP WOODS

A hatch stood open,
a rider appeared.
A cold mist had lain
upon the field.
Nine black horses
and nine armed men.
An eye stared furiously
down from a flag.

Silence fell,
as the company stopped,
They stopped in a circle
around the stone.
Silently they rode towards it,
and disappear when they arrived
For stones were a thought
filled with power.

Stars on a sky,
that never fall down.
Lightning in a night
that lasts forever.
A thousand cold winters,
with only chill and hatred.
There is no summer
without winter.

In an old forest,
where trolls and gnomes wandered,
There was a stone
that moved and came to life.
Nine armed men,
on nine grey proud horses,
Bore a flag upon
which the eye appeared.

Each night is a new darkness.
Each winter I freeze,
And yet never shall I cry,
For proud I did ride times behind

Out of the deep forest

Written for Darkthrone by Greifi Grishnackh 31/12/1993

 


 

 

IN A HALL WITH PORK AND MEAD

In an old ash hung a nosecold man.
Under a black sky from where the rain poured down.
None went thither to cut the corpse down,
For no one could know whereat the hanging took place.

Lonely man he was when he went to Allfather's place,
he arrived clothed in a body armour to a marvellous, grim palace.
A thousand year had passed since last man went thither,
They cried in a gloomy happiness when at last a son there came.

North of the trolly cape was a place of mist far down.
Rows of Norse sons wandered thither north and nie.
None in lack of grave and none in lack of sons,
For they went by fire and pestilence there to the beds of the coldhouse.

Only few of the guardian's children came to the rich row of their father,
For cunning deceit bore most of them far down.
Yet one can hear the song each heathen old feast
Aye! still the feasts are held among the faithful sons of Od.

 Written for Darkthrone by Greifi Grishnackh 31/12/1993

 

SEE ALSO:

 BLACK METAL - The Cult of Esoteric Heathendom

The Black Metal Voice of The Past

 

Friday, December 25, 2020

The Ghost Stories of Christmas Part II - Christopher Lee's Victorian Stories

 Christopher Lee reads the disturbing Victorian ghost stories
of writer MR James.


Horror legend Christopher Lee reads the disturbing Victorian ghost stories of writer M.R. James.   A century ago, it was James's habit to read one aloud by candlelight every Christmas Eve to a select group of students in his study at King's College, Cambridge. In this collection Lee tells the chilling tales "The Stalls of Barchester", "The Ash Tree", "Number 13" and "A Warning to the Curious".

You can listen the stories here:

 https://youtu.be/mMFWKbKP5KM

 

 

The Ghost Stories of Christmas Part I - From Macbeth to Christmas Carol

 

 

 "The ghost story, first as an oral tradition and later as a literary genre, remains among the most long-lived and flexible of narrative forms, proving as popular on the small screen as at the cinema, in the theatre or on the page. The supernatural was a regular feature of classical drama - ghosts are crucial to the dramatic development of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth for instance - but the ghost story only emerged as a distinct genre in the Victorian era, with its fascinations with spiritualism.
In 1843
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol forever tied the festive season to the genre." 

Sergio Angelini on screenonline.org.uk

 

 



Thursday, December 24, 2020

The Importance of Forest in European Religion

 

 


IN THE RELIGIOUS history of the Aryan race in Europe the worship of trees has played an important part. Nothing could be more natural. For at the dawn of history Europe was covered with immense primaeval forests, in which the scattered clearings must have appeared like islets in an ocean of green. Down to the first century before our era the Hercynian forest stretched eastward from the Rhine for a distance at once vast and unknown; Germans whom Caesar questioned had travelled for two months through it without reaching the end. Four centuries later it was visited by the Emperor Julian, and the solitude, the gloom, the silence of the forest appear to have made a deep impression on his sensitive nature. He declared that he knew nothing like it in the Roman empire. 

 


In our own country the wealds of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex are remnants of the great forest of Anderida, which once clothed the whole of the south-eastern portion of the island. Westward it seems to have stretched till it joined another forest that extended from Hampshire to Devon. In the reign of Henry II. the citizens of London still hunted the wild bull and the boar in the woods of Hampstead. Even under the later Plantagenets the royal forests were sixty-eight in number. In the forest of Arden it was said that down to modern times a squirrel might leap from tree to tree for nearly the whole length of Warwickshire. The excavation of ancient pile-villages in the valley of the Po has shown that long before the rise and probably the foundation of Rome the north of Italy was covered with dense woods of elms, chestnuts, and especially of oaks. Archaeology is here confirmed by history; for classical writers contain many references to Italian forests which have now disappeared. As late as the fourth century before our era Rome was divided from central Etruria by the dreaded Ciminian forest, which Livy compares to the woods of Germany. No merchant, if we may trust the Roman historian, had ever penetrated its pathless solitudes; and it was deemed a most daring feat when a Roman general, after sending two scouts to explore its intricacies, led his army into the forest and, making his way to a ridge of the wooded mountains, looked down on the rich Etrurian fields spread out below. 

 


In Greece beautiful woods of pine, oak, and other trees still linger on the slopes of the high Arcadian mountains, still adorn with their verdure the deep gorge through which the Ladon hurries to join the sacred Alpheus, and were still, down to a few years ago, mirrored in the dark blue waters of the lonely lake of Pheneus; but they are mere fragments of the forests which clothed great tracts in antiquity, and which at a more remote epoch may have spanned the Greek peninsula from sea to sea.    

 


From an examination of the Teutonic words for “temple” Grimm has made it probable that amongst the Germans the oldest sanctuaries were natural woods. However that may be, tree-worship is well attested for all the great European families of the Aryan stock. Amongst the Celts the oak-worship of the Druids is familiar to every one, and their old word for sanctuary seems to be identical in origin and meaning with the Latin nemus, a grove or woodland glade, which still survives in the name of Nemi. Sacred groves were common among the ancient Germans, and tree-worship is hardly extinct amongst their descendants at the present day. How serious that worship was in former times may be gathered from the ferocious penalty appointed by the old German laws for such as dared to peel the bark of a standing tree. The culprit’s navel was to be cut out and nailed to the part of the tree which he had peeled, and he was to be driven round and round the tree till all his guts were wound about its trunk. The intention of the punishment clearly was to replace the dead bark by a living substitute taken from the culprit; it was a life for a life, the life of a man for the life of a tree. At Upsala, the old religious capital of Sweden, there was a sacred grove in which every tree was regarded as divine.

 


The heathen Slavs worshipped trees ad groves. The Lithuanians were not converted to Christianity till towards the close of the fourteenth century, and amongst them at the date of their conversion the worship of trees was prominent. Some of them revered remarkable oaks and other great shady trees, from which they received oracular responses. Some maintained holy groves about their villages or houses, where even to break a twig would have been a sin. They thought that he who cut a bough in such a grove either died suddenly or was crippled in one of his limbs. 

 


Proofs of the prevalence of tree-worship in ancient Greece and Italy are abundant. In the sanctuary of Aesculapius at Cos, for example, it was forbidden to cut down the cypress-trees under a penalty of a thousand drachms. But nowhere, perhaps, in the ancient world was this antique form of religion better preserved than in the heart of the great metropolis itself. In the Forum, the busy centre of Roman life, the sacred fig-tree of Romulus was worshipped down to the days of the empire, and the withering of its trunk was enough to spread consternation through the city. Again, on the slope of the Palatine Hill grew a cornel-tree which was esteemed one of the most sacred objects in Rome. Whenever the tree appeared to a passer-by to be drooping, he set up a hue and cry which was echoed by the people in the street, and soon a crowd might be seen running helter-skelter from all sides with buckets of water, as if (says Plutarch) they were hastening to put out a fire.

 


Taken from:

Sir James George Frazer - The Golden Bough (1922)
Chapter: The Worship of Trees



Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Aristogenesis - The Exploration of Ancestral Origins

 

By
NORDISK RADIO

 "Aristogenesis will explore the origins of our Aryan ancestors and follow their course from primeval times up to the dawn of history. We will examine our forefather’s myths and traditions as well as their religiosity and their understanding of the cosmos. We will attempt to shed light on the inner forces and ideas that drove the Aryans into creating the most enlightened cultures throughout history. We will seek our ancestral heritage beyond the monuments, the wars and the well documented paths of history and examine arts, symbols, legends and traditions in order to understand the authentic soul and spirit of our bloodline.

Our goal with the podcast is to introduce our listeners to the primordial wisdom of our ancestors and rekindle their interest to explore and study Aryan philosophy and spirituality as well as to investigate the foundations and peculiarities of our forefather’s psyche. We wish to evoke/raise our ancestral knowledge from the barren fields of academic secularism to a living idea that will help us navigate our perilous times and rediscover our Aryan identity and potentiality.

The opposition we face bears countless masks and disguises as it distorts the Truth and poisons everything Noble. The history of our people is twisted and falsified, our ideals and morals are being reversed and scorned, our myths degraded and mocked, our traditions ossified into inanimate folklore. Ancestral knowledge and spirituality are cast away as anachronistic and irrelevant while our people are becoming enslaved under the bond of spiritual, intellectual and psychological confusion. The link to our people’s primordial psyche is being severed as the voice of our ancestors becomes enigmatic and incomprehensible.

With a mature and willing attityd we shall attempt to gain valuable knowledge when examining our own (and our ancestors) faults and responsibility to why we now find ourselves in this onslaught of opposition. The malicious and malefic intent to devour everything that is Noble i.e. the spirit of our time shall quicken our awakening process as we learn about our ancestral Aryan historical, culture, genetic and psychological primordial wisdom through out time.

Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) an American paleontologist and geologist and a believer in orthogenesis (i.e. evolutionary progress of mankind) coined the term aristogenesis.

Osborn held the view that mutations and natural selection play no creative role in evolution but believed that aristogenes (aristocratic genes) operate as biomechanisms in the gene plasma of the organism which creates the novelty of the Aryans.'

 LISTEN THE PODCAST HERE



 

 

 

Thursday, December 17, 2020

The Hellenic Wolf-God

 


Apollo the Wolf-God Monograph No. 8 — By Daniel E. Gerhenson
 

Daniel E. Gershensen uncovers a wide range of Apollo's links to wolves, wind-wolves, werewolves, and even to the ancient fraternities of human werewolves still remembered in parts of Europe into recent centuries. We read about the werewolf "army of the dead" that survived in Germanic folk lore as "the Wild Hunt," so faithfully recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Aristotle's Lyceum, or "wolf place", was so-named because it stood close to a temple dedicated to the wolf-god Apollo, who was also the god of knowledge. Even the English fairy tale about the Three Little Pigs, in which a wolf huff'd and puff'd to blow their houses down, is shown to be a survival from early beliefs about wind-wolves associated with Apollo in his capacity as a wind god.


"There is no doubt that the epithets of Apollo from the root lyk- are derived from the name of the wolf, and not from a root meaning "light"


 

Chapter titles in this revealing and well-documented study relate to:
 

Apollo and the Wolf;  

Evidence for the Wind Wolf;

 The Wolf-name in Toponymy; 

Heroes of Greek Myth who bear the Wolf-name or partake in its wider context;

 The Dolphin and the Wolf; 

The Wolf and Death; 

Werewolf-confraternities and wind evidence; 

The Stoic Explanation of the epithet Lykeios; 

The Trial of the werewolf named Old Thies, in 1691; Lykos and Lykeios

ISBN 0-941694-38-0

 

Source: Ancestral Europe

 

 

Friday, December 11, 2020

The Nordic Origins of Tolkien's Balrog

 

Tolkien's Balrog is based on Fire Ettins, described in Lokasenna stanza 42 as the sons of Muspell (fire) flying over Myrkvið (yes, Mirkwood, "The Dark Forest"). Even the name means "Fire Power" (Bál + Rök) in Norse.

Below: Surtr ("Black"), a Fire Ettin, wielding a flaming sword:

Lokasenna, 42:
Gulli keypta
léztu Gymis dóttur
ok seldir þitt svá sverð;
en er Múspells synir
ríða Myrkvið yfir,
veizt-a þú þá, vesall, hvé þú vegr.



In English:
You purchased
Gymir's daughter with gold,
and sold your sword:
when the sons of Muspell (fire)
ride over the dark forest (Mirkwood)
you, creep, don't know what to fight with.



Varg Vikernes - November 2020
Source : MyFaRog Twitter


SEE ALSO:
A Meeting of Giants
Tolkien's Middle Earth - A Historical Resemblance
Wolfhead, Tolkien and The Primal Fear of Man

 

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

David Irving's "True Himmler" Part I Book Is Out Now!

 

 "TWENTY years in the making, David Irving's biography of Heinrich Himmler, the man, is finally ready. In two parts, the first of which appears now, Irving describes from true documents the origins of Himmler, an educated man with a Classics teacher as his revered father, and his extraordinary career until the final dramatic hours of his life, raising an army of elite SS soldiers and men to stand for Germany and defend it against the secret Soviet plans to invade all of Europe in 1941. He becomes a most trusted ally of Adolf Hitler, and remains loyal to the end; when he hears of Hitler’s imminent death Himmler takes steps to contact the western Allies and offer them the assistance of the SS against the mighty Russian army. But the western capitals are by then powerless, sucked too far into the Soviet thrall.
 
Why twenty years? It has not been easy – or inexpensive – to retrieve the thousands of missing private papers, letters and diaries which vanished into unfriendly hands at the end. Mr Irving, already the finder of other secret records surrounding Hitler, identifies the current holders of scores of private letters – partly American, partly Israeli, their identities now oddly concealed by Germany newspaper editors and historians still wilting under the glare of the draconian Morgenthau Plan. (Mr Irving published a facsimile of the secret Plan from Oxford University archives). He uses secret British intercepts of SS messages, as well as Reinhard Heydrich’s papers and KGB files in Moscow archives.
 
The reputation of his young soldiers was systematically denigrated on the age-old principal Give a dog a bad name and hang him. Mr Irving’s suspicions, spelled out in the first and second part, are that Germany's enemies saw in the SS such a formidable enemy, and in Himmler such a formidable man, that they tracked him tracked down after the war ended, where his life was terminated; the very first chapter examines the circumstances of Himmler’s “suicide” more closely..." 
 
Available from FOCAL POINT PUBLICATIONS (Click on the name)

SEE ALSO:
David Irving's Himmler is Coming!



Saturday, December 5, 2020

The War of All Against All

 


 “The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal.”

PENTTI LINKOLA - Can Life Prevail?