Folkish Appalachia

“As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.” - Friedrich Nietzsche The infighting continues between those who would proclaim themselves, whether explicitly or implicitly, to be the high priests, sacred kings, or absolute authorities for pagans. This seems to be a particular problem in the Asatru/heathen/Germanic paganism sphere. Much could be said about how it makes no sense to try and establish a catholic orthodoxy or orthopraxy for religions that always displayed great regional variety. Or about how attempts at pure reconstruction are as foolish and doomed to fail as attempts at repainting Christian buildings, dogma and morals and calling it Asatru. But it’s more useful at this moment to understand why the different warring priests are the way they are. The Nietzsche quote above really gets to the heart of the matter. We are dealing with people who have no actual power in the real world, and know deep down that they are utterly incapable of acquiring any. And so they pour all their efforts into becoming the king of their little LARP group. Being the chief priest of a mostly online heathen group might even mean something if it could be translated into real-world power. But none of the claimants to the title of Asapope can muster enough support to enable them to gain the most meagre amount of power in the real world, not even in the smallest, most rural town. They are impotent, but more than that, they are actively harmful, redirecting the energy of their followers away from activities that would actually improve their lives and the lives of their kinfolk in the real world. We do not need to reconstruct a religion whose practice would be utterly anachronistic in this day and age, divorced from the time and place and people who gave birth to it. We do not need wholesome chungus Christianity, with Odin taking the place of Jesus. What we need is a rekindling of that spirit that animated the Bronze Age Greeks, and the Vikings, among other people in other periods. This rebirth will not look exactly like either of these, nor like anything that came before it. The leaders will arise organically, as they are already beginning to do. And these men will be nothing like the grifting, impotent priests trying to distract us today.

A self-important priest class has always been a problem for Europeans. "YOu nEeD uS tO ReaCh ThE DiViNe! . YoU MuSt ConSuLT the OraCles!!" Jew-types exist within white circles regardless of specific ethnicity. The Jews are just an example of a Tribe who build their whole genetics/identity off of the priest class (Nation of Priests) (e.g. Cohens had special access to choice virgins, red meat, life free of manual labor, living off interest; they had the most kids generationally). . I have no problem with someone pursuing Eternal Truths and sharing those learnings with their Tribe—the trouble arises when they think their sh- don't stink. Uncle A called it right on this one.

We have to strip away the Christian veneer from the Graal-Mythos to find the Secret of the Spear and the Graal. The Graal contains the 'Blood Royal' (Sang-Real) - the 'Pure Blood' - and the Spear plunged into the Graal is an act of Divine Creation. Aleister Crowley stated that the original Grand Master of the O.T.O. (Templars) helped with Wagner's 'Parsifal' where the Spear is plunged into the Graal. This act is not only an act of Divine Creation, but it destroys the power of the Dark Magician Klingsor, and his World of Illusion.

On the Full Moon of this Ninth Holy Month at 9pm we honored The Gods and The Landwights ᛟ

This one helps your hair grow longer 😉

"Be ye hale, Hidden inhabitants Ye Woodwose, wild elves Greenmen, goodfellows Blithe landwights, this offering brook. Worthy forest gods, grants us weal. ". A Béd to landweights by the Ealdrice Théod

Stretched out shuddering, Like a half-dead, whose feet are warmed, Shaken by unknown fevers, Shivering with piercing icy frost arrows, Hunted by you, thought! Unutterable! Cloaked One! Horrible One! You Hunter behind the clouds! Struck down by your Lightning-Bolt, Your mocking eye that stares at me from the dark! Thus I lie, Writhing, twisting, tormented With all eternal tortures, Smitten By you, cruel Huntsman, You unknown – God...... Friedrich Nietzsche (Possessed by Wotan).

Wotan Erwache!

You could bring together every politician, every expert, every intellectual to solve the world’s problems and they would all fail to see - The great corruption - the great destroyer of our age - is the illness of the spirit. There is no solution beyond this: to heal and renew our own world, we must first go into the darkness that lies at the depths of our own soul and light fires there once again. In this light, and with this fire, we may illuminate the way forward - but until we take part in a revolution of our spirit, there can be no other victory.

When we first started looking at this historic mansion to be repurposed and dedicated to the Gods, we were told it was built in 1910, but we had doubts. For one, the house is Napoleon III style which went out of vogue by the 1870s and would be rare by 1910. The house has tin ceilings. And details like the porcelain doorknobs say "patented 1853". The layout just does not seem "1910". We are piecing together the mystery. Allegedly, the house was originally built in 1858 by a Doctor in another town. Then in 1910 it was dismantled and brought to its present location. (Why the deed says 1910.) We got this picture of how it looked in the 1920s. Back then it had a wraparound porch and colonnade. And there used to be a second, northern veranda. All of that north facing detail is missing now, but the foundation is still there. Should we rebuild it? You can help us dedicate this mansion to Odin, Thor, and Freyr by donating to our fundraiser. https://www.irminfolk.com/irminhof-fund-raiser/