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My Path Toward Profession

By Hariulf OR The decision to take the Oath of Profession was a very long process. I am not a person who makes decisions on a whim. Some years have passed now since I joined the Rite. I must say that from my first contacts with the OR, I knew it was an organization where I would feel good, and I knew that I made the right choice.

The Runic Era: Some History of the New Awakening

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By Heimgest DCG We receive many enquiries about OR practices and questions/misunderstandings about the Runic Era are not rare. Here then are the facts.

Profession and Naming Ceremony

By Wolfram OR Let me start by saying, it was a great honour for me to be professed as I have been a member for several years now. I've held off until recently in applying to be professed as there were conditions/circumstances in my personal life that made me feel unfit for the commitment. I'm now a father of two lovely baby girls and we are an Odinist family

Tafl: The Game of the Gods

By Mark Puryear The game of Tafl, “Tables,” or Hnefatafl, “King’s Tables,” is an ancient pastime that was played by our ancestors as far back as 400 AD, until it was superseded by chess around 1000 A.D.

Death: The Meaning of Life

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A Great Moot talk by Eowyn OR How many of you here know the meaning of life? How many of you are searching for it? Well, I will tell you right now what it is. You, you, you- and you- are all going to die! Every single one of us in this room. It could be today, tomorrow, a year or decades from now. But the immutable fact of life is that nobody but nobody escapes death. It is the one uniting factor of all life on Earth.

Odin and the Tower

By Harry S AOR Nothing could escape Odin’s eye when he sat in his High Seat of Hlidskjalf. He would cast himself onto its velvet upholstery, and let his mind move over all the worlds. One particular day, not so long ago in the memory of our people, he sat there and gazed over the multiverse.

From a Word to a Word

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By Volksieg AOR Language is one of the greatest tools and gifts mankind has ever wielded. Imagine a world without language? The rich inner world we each inhabit and explore cannot even take shape without the tools which language has provided.

The Return of Self Reliance

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By Jennifer H AOR Self Reliance is one of our NNV. We can be self reliant in any number of areas. However, I would like to take a moment to speak with you about the importance of self reliance in one of the most basic areas of humans existence. Food.

Freedom

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by Redwald OR When Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, “Are you a man as ought to escape from a yoke?”, he sparked an interesting dilemma for anyone of an evolutionary Odinic mindset.

Function, Faith, Frith

by Michael Boyd AOR In the microcosm and macrocosm there exist paradigms, or patterns, that determine everything. Plato called these “forms”, they are also known as Ideals. This is true of physics as it is of metaphysics yet our focus here is of course to the spiritual and the Odinic ambition of continual “Becoming”

Idun Project Southeast London – Lessons and Results from First Year.

by Hengest OR I have not posted about my allotment since Jim C wrote a report about it way back in August 2010 so I thought I would share some of what I have learned in that time.

Live – Breathe – Grow

Our ancestors were not just warriors - in fact many people mistakenly believe Odinism to be purely a warrior religion. Although there is a strong warrior aspect to Odinism, one of the key areas in which our ancestors thrived was in agriculture.