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	Germanic paganism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Germanic paganism refers to the religion and mythology of the Germanic nations preceding Christianization, including Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythologies, and remnants of pre-Christian beliefs in the folklore of medieval and modern Germanic peoples.
		The living remnants of the Germanic pre-Christian religion may be regarded as an indigenous ancestral faith, as Shinto is for the Japanese.
		Ultimately deriving from Indo-European religion, Germanic paganism formed during the 1st millennium BC, during the Scandinavian pre-Roman Iron Age, immediately descending from the Nordic Bronze Age, with influences from neighboring cultures, notably the Celts, and possibly Finnish and Baltic mythologies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Germanic_mythology (1671 words)

	Germanic religion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Conversion of the Germans to Christianity began as early as the 4th cent.
		In Nazi Germany the spirit of the old religion and the heroic attributes of the Germanic gods were revived as part of the propaganda program of the Nazi party.
		In Germanic religion the dead were believed to retain their faculties and to affect the fate of the living.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ge/GermancRe.html (802 words)

	Germanic Neopaganism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first modern attempt at revival of ancient Germanic religion took place in the 19th Century during the late Romantic Period amidst a general resurgence of interest in traditional Germanic culture, in particular in connection with romantic nationalism in Scandinavia and the related Viking revival in Victorian Britain.
		Organized Germanic pagan or occult groups such as the Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft emerged in Germany in the early 20th century.
		Germanic Neopagan organizations generally favor democratic and republican forms of church government, as inspired by the parliamentary Things of the Viking era and subsequent parliamentary systems of Britain and the Scandinavian countries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asatru (2587 words)

	Germanic Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		These deities were not regarded as immortal, for it was believed that the day of Ragnorak, the doom of the gods, would one day come, causing the gods to die in mortal combat and that the earth and humans would perish with them.
		Incursions and settlements by the Germanic tribes, however, occurred largely during the first millennium CE as the Roman Empire began to decline in Western Europe.
		It was the Germanic Visigoths who sacked Rome in 410, and they then moved on to Aquitaine (418) and established the kingdom of Toulouse.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/europe/german.html (418 words)

	Encyclopedia: Germanic religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Germanic mythology is a comprehensive term for Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology and other versions of the mythologies of the Germanic peoples.
		The close similarities in these mythologies are due to their being derived from a common Proto-Germanic mythology, dating roughly to the last few centuries BC, in turn ultimately derived from Indo-European mythology, but also due to the persistent cultural contact between the various tribes and peoples.
		Unfortunately, even less is known about mythology or religion of the East Germanic peoples, separated from the remaining Germanic tribes during the Migration period.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Germanic-religion (397 words)

	Germanic religion; rites and rituals of the Anglo-Saxons
		Germanic religion; rites and rituals of the Anglo-Saxons
		In this connection, in the pre-migration Germanic world in general, the divine twins Alhiz might also be mentioned, who were equated with the Roman Castor and Pollux and worshipped locally, especially among the eastern Germanic* tribes, as ancestors.
		In the sixth century, [as an example of the Germanic animal-head ritual], the Lombards had a custom of singing and dancing around a goat’s head." The head of the animal species that was considered especially the materialization of the deity's anima could thus serve the same function as did the totem poles or idols.
	www.geocities.com /therapeuter2002/germaninvasion.html (8896 words)

	The Germans
		After the conquest of Rome and a feeble attempt by the some Germanic tribes to continue Roman culture and institutions, the face of Europe was gradually transformed by a remarkable diversity of Germanic tribes.
		For the most part, the term "Germanic" is almost entirely a linguistic rather than a cultural term—it refers mainly to the tribal groups in Europe that spoke similar languages, Germanic, that had been derived from Celtic sources.
		German religious practice was largely shamanistic as it was among the Celts; as with the Celts, religious ceremonies took place in groves and sometimes by bodies of water—this indicates that there was a strong sense of nature in Germanic religion.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MA/GERMANS.HTM (3127 words)

	RAHOWA! This Planet is All Ours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When we speak of the Nazi-Germanic Religion we are talking more of an attempt by the Nazi movement to formulate a new racial religion for the German, or Teutonic peoples, rather than the accomplishment of such a task.
		Another was the formulation of a nationalist Germanic religion that was racial in nature that would, when successful, replace Christianity as the basic religion of the German people.
		Because of his self-defeating approach in trying to compromise the new Germanic religion within the framework of Christianity, his effort, in my opinion, was an utter failure and a pointless pursuit.
	www.creativityohio.com /rahowa/rahowa-18.html (3216 words)

	Tract
		The religion of the peoples of Northern Europe ultimately derives from the same Indo-European source as those of the Celts and of early Rome, and like them, was influenced by the religions of the peoples who preceded them.
		Although some see in the practice of Germanic religion a return to "White Roots", most of those who are interested in the religion of the North focus on its relevance to our shared culture, or on the distinctive vision embodied in its mythology.
		Old Germanic practice was for the chieftain of a clan or the leader of a district to act as gothi (priest), hosting the feasts and leading the rituals.
	www.hrafnar.org /tract.html (1392 words)

	Shamanism
		Germanic rites of initiation: bestowing on the maturing youth the spear and shield of the warrior (acceptance into manhood); the now lost Germanic sacrament of fertility and sexual maturation for the maturing young woman.
		The German biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) described this passage best with the succinct phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." That is, a human (or other) organism develops through initial stages very similar in structure to the immature (in-egg and in-womb) forms of his (or its) evolutionary ancestors, starting with the earliest and ending with the latest.
		From earliest times Germanic religion understood the supernatural in a way utterly unlike the early Jewish or Christian idea of an Oriental potentate who was human-like (i.e., the familiar picture in the minds of average Jews and Christians, despite the views of their theologians).
	www.harbornet.com /folks/theedrich/hive/Shamansm.htm (16579 words)

	Vanguard News Network Forum - The Germanization of Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Germanic pagan peoples had a clear sense that war was a religious undertaking, in which the gods were interested.
		Germanic influence was largely responsible, according to Jungmann, for an increased emphasis upon the dramatic and allegorical representation of the vents from the life of Christ in the Mass and in Scripture, as well as in the weekly liturgical cycle, and a simultaneous decline in soteriological-eschatological emphases in the liturgy and in artistic expression.
		Also related to Germanization was the emergence of the Christmas festival cycle aas a rival to the Easter cycle, and an increased stratification of clergy and laity, represented by the growing distance between the altar and the faithful, as well as by the introduction of a communion rail boundary at which communicant knelt.
	www.vnnforum.com /printthread.php?t=354 (4312 words)

	Newsletter Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The writer Miller (witan@bc-freehold.org) is currently a director with the Asatru Freehold of B.C., a society dedicated to the furtherance of aboriginal Germanic religion and culture.
		Germanic languages spoken today belong to one of two branches of the Indo-European language family, the North Germanic, including Norwegian, Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish and Danish, and the West Germanic, including German, Dutch and English, among others.
		Germanic speakers have been calling the days of the week by their tribal Gods since well before Christianity was even known in Northern Europe.
	www.pfpc.ca /en/PFPC/newsletter/yule-father.html (2253 words)

	Sex, Status, and Seidh: Homosexuality and Germanic Religion
		Certainly Tacitus' averral that German men had only one wife is contravened by evidence that in tribes such as the Franks, and later among the Vikings, it was common for kings at least to have more than one official lady.
		The key to the problem of interpreting Germanic attitudes towards homosexuality seems to be the relationship of passivity/receptivity to the feminine gender role.
		Of the variants in homosexual behavior-- berdache; boy-man pairings; and the pairings of macho men-- I would speculate that the one which was most common in the ancient North was transexuality, because of later references to effeminate dress in a religious context, and because sexual passivity is used as an insult later on.
	www.hrafnar.org /seidh/sex-status-seidh.html (3968 words)

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		According to Flowers: Many of their ideas are drawn from the most recent scholarly work concerning the old Germanic religion, and traditional religions in general, as well as from the psychological theories of C.G. Jung.
		Jungian psychology and old Germanic written sources remain the most influential ideas in the formation of neo-Germanic concepts concerning the nature of man and his place in the cosmos.
		Flowers notes, however, that the members of these neo- Germanic groups "are more attracted by antiquarian interests or racial sentimentalities than by religious zeal or interest in self-transformation." This observation probably could hav been equally made about the many participants in the Volkstumbewegung circa 1900.
	www.luckymojo.com /esoteric/religion/asatru/neo-asatru/9901.astrnzi.rn (1183 words)

	"Hail Earth That Givest to All ..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Note that the Northern religion also featured a number of other beliefs not mentioned here - the purpose of this essay is only to discuss those ideas which seem common to all and to provide some evidence that they were characteristic of the North as well.
		Religion and magic may inspire and empower the individual, but their purpose is to serve the community.
		Many of the Germanic deities, including Odin, are highly ambiguous, their beneficence depending on whether their purposes happen to accord with the desires of men.
	vinland.org /heathen/mt/earth.html (2114 words)

	Germanic religion and mythology -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Germanic religion played an important role in shaping the civilization of Europe.
		Urban folklorists collect stories that have much in common with the tales collected by the Grimm brothers, except that in the modern narratives the lone traveler is likely to be threatened, not by a werewolf, but by a phantom hitchhiker, and the location of his...
		The Germanic tribes immigrating to mainland Europe from Scandinavia from the 1st century BC onward brought with them a rich culture.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9110623 (851 words)

	A Clash of Beliefs: Religion in Anglo-Saxon Britain
		Germanic religion was based on a belief system that had gods and goddesses in charge of different parts of humans’ daily lives.
		To the Saxons and the other Germanic peoples living in England in the years between the Roman Exodus and the wholesale conversion to Christianity, the gods had the power to influence material matters and the outcome of events.
		The story of the loaves and the fishes is all well and good, but the goddess of the harvest and her promise to protect her people somehow seemed more comforting.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6546/73827 (526 words)

	Germanic religion -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		There were two sets of gods in the Germanic pantheon, the warlike Aesir and the agricultural Vanir.
		Germanic religion also encompassed belief in female guardian spirits, elves, and dwarfs.
		The word is probably derived from a Teutonic or Germanic term meaning “to be strict” or “to observe.” In addition to fasting, many religions also have dietary restrictions: certain foods are not to be eaten by believers of a certain faith.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9365489 (911 words)

	Germanic religion
		Germanic religion: Rites and Ceremonies - Rites and Ceremonies The temples of the gods were attended by priests who were responsible...
		Germanic religion: The Creation Myth - The Creation Myth In early Nordic belief, from the mixture of the glacial waters of Niflheim (the...
		Germanic religion: The Germanic Pantheon - The Germanic Pantheon Germanic religion, like most ancient religions, was polytheistic.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0820624.html (243 words)

	INGEBORG'S UNOFFICIAL ASATRU FAQ
		Asatru (literally, "faith in the gods") is a modern reconstruction of the religion that the Germanic tribes practiced before their conversion to Christianity.
		The Germans (obviously) and the Scandinavians are Germanic--but so are the Dutch, the Frisians, the English, and several other ethnic groups that have died out or intermarried over the centuries.
		The Germanic symbolism was used mainly because it appealed to the masses' nationalistic feelings--and even then, its meaning was perverted into something that the pagan tribes wouldn't have recognized or accepted.
	www.erichshall.com /asanew/ingfaq.htm (1874 words)

	Germanic religion -> The Germanic Pantheon on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Germanic religion -> The Germanic Pantheon on Encyclopedia.com 2002
		The most beautiful of the palaces was Valhalla ; there Woden, attended by the Valkyries, gave banquets to the dead heroes.
		However, it was also prophesied that from the ashes of the old world a new cosmos would emerge and a new generation of gods and humans would dwell in harmony.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/germancre_thegermanicpantheon.asp (539 words)

	Project Name page1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Reason for the belief that this one tribe was origin of the runes is speculative, based on the fact that earliest title for "rune-master" or shaman amongst the early Viking tribes was the word "heruli".
		The spiritual values of the runes have developed throughout the ages, primarily through the Germanic thought-world, and have a very close connection with the old Germanic religion and mythology.
		In fact, they are so closely tied to the old Germanic religion that the use of runes, without a basic and, preferably, advanced knowledge of the religion would be a waste of time, as most of their meaning and value would go unfathomed.
	www.freewebs.com /runes/contact.htm (429 words)

	Reginheim
		The Roman conquest of Germanic borderlands and the interaction between the Romans and the Germans.
		A brief history of the Germanic tribes in the Rhinedelta (nowadays the Netherlands) in the period before the Batavian rebellion, Roman influences, the Frisian rebellion, and some funny events.
		In the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century lots of writings concerning anything Germanic were based on all kinds of controversial hypotheses, racial theories and assumptions, works from that time must therefore be used with caution.
	www.geocities.com /reginheim/home.html (1383 words)

	Popular Topics: Religion
		Ward makes an argument for religion as a necessary and reasonable exercise for humans who are aware of the transcendent.
		An introduction to the role of religion and the spiritual dimension in the real world, from the origins of religious belief to the future of religion in today's spiritual landscape.
		DK illustrated dictionary of religions : rituals, beliefs, and practices from around the world, by Philip Wilkinson.
	www.wcl.govt.nz /popular/religion.html (728 words)

	Creating Heathen Community
		While there are reconstructionist groups that trace cultural links to religions of many parts of the world, the groups I am stuyding look to Northern Europe, to the rich sources of Nordic or Germanic mythologies, for their primary information.
		In this usage, Odinists are people looking for a "white" religion, and Kaplan traces its construction from the Germany of the Weimar republic, through the writings of an obscure Australian, Alexander Rudd Mills, and their adoption by members of the American post-war extreme right-wing, to associations with present-day National Socialist groups (1993, p.
		Like any religion, including Christianity, we have our lunatic fringe, but it would be a mistake to think that the fringe is typical or in any way represents the beliefs and practices of most believers.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Lofts/2171/heath.html (6221 words)

	The Temple of Tyr
		Although historically he probably preceded the other Germanic gods, according to some poems of the Viking age, Tyr was the son of the giant Hymir, while in others Odin was his father.
		Interestingly, while the wolf was the sacred animal of Mars and served as wet-nurse to Romulus and Remus, a mythical wolf is described in Germanic tales as the enemy of Tyr and the other gods of Asgard.
		The German peoples believed that nothing lasts forever; that not even the gods were immortal, and like everything on Earth, the gods in their turn would finally perish.
	www.angelfire.com /empire/martiana/tyr (1149 words)

	Germanic Religion - Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To isolate one figure among those such as the "spear god", for example, because of its larger size, and identifying it further with Óðinn (Odin) because the latter had a wondrous spear called Gungnir, is, to say the least, conjectural.
		The age of migration and the following period, when the Germanic kingdoms became established in western Europe, yield only meager documents on the religion of the people who precipitated the downfall of the Roman empire.
		The gods and their cults have also left their mark in the numerous toponyms attesting to the vitality of their worship in specific areas at the time of the settlement.
	www.nvg.unit.no /~hersir/firthir/religion/germsources.html (384 words)

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