Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Sources
Most sources documenting Germanic paganism have been lost and it is only from Iceland that there is a substantial literature, namely the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Proto-germanic Religion
Germanic paganism seems to have begun developing sometime during the 2nd millennium BC, during the Nordic Bronze Age, with influences fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Pre-migration Period
Germanic paganism - Caesar. The earliest forms of Germanic religion can only be speculated on based on archaeological evidence and comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism
Reconstructions of the traditions of Germanic paganism began with 19th century Romanticism. From the 1960s, various Neopagan movements ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odinic Rite: Encyclopedia - Odinic Rite
The Odinic Rite (OR) is a Germanic pagan reconstructivist society whose aims are to promote all aspects of Germanic paganism, termed Odin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heathenry: Encyclopedia - Heathenry
Heathenry is the term preferred, in the UK (and increasingly elsewhere), by many followers of Germanic paganism or Germanic neopaganism a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goddess: Encyclopedia - Goddess
A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a "god". A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Viking Age
Main articles: Norse paganism and Norse mythology Early medieval Scandinavian (Viking Age) paganism is much better documented than its pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yule: Encyclopedia - Yule
Yule was the winter solstice celebration of the Germanic pagans. In Germanic Neopaganism it is one of the eight solar holidays, or sabbat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Middle Ages
In 1000 AD, Iceland became nominally Christian, although continuation of pagan worship in private was tolerated. Most of Scandinavia was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Migration Age
During the Migration period, Germanic religion was subject to syncretic influence from Christianity and Mediterranean culture (see also R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Pre-migration Period
Germanic paganism - Tacitus. The first description of Germanic religion is Tacitus' Germania, dating to the 1st century. Tacitus descri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Middle Ages
In 1000 AD, Iceland became nominally Christian, although continuation of pagan worship in private was tolerated. Most of Scandinavia was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Viking Age
Early medieval Scandinavian (Viking Age) paganism is much better documented than its predecessors, notably via the records of Norse mytho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Migration Age
During the Migration period, Germanic religion was subject to syncretic influence from Christianity and Mediterranean culture (see also R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pagans: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pagans - Wicca/witchcraft/eclectic/various
List of pagans - Wicca. Adler, Margot - author, journalist, Wiccan Priestess and Elder, NPR correspondent in New York City Beyerl, Pau...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - History
The first modern attempt at revival of ancient Germanic religion took place in the 19th Century during the late Romantic Period amidst a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odin: Encyclopedia Ii - Odin - Origins
Worship of Odin dates to Proto-Germanic paganism. The Roman historian Tacitus probably refers to Odin when he talks of Mercury. The reaso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodanaz: Encyclopedia Ii - Wodanaz - Revivals
With the Romantic Viking revival of the early-to-mid 19th century, Odin's popularity increased again. Wotan is a lead character in Richar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodanaz: Encyclopedia Ii - Wodanaz - Etymology
The attested forms of the theonym are traditionally derived from Proto-Germanic *Wōđanaz[1] (in Old Norse word-initial *w- was dropped ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goddess: Encyclopedia Ii - Goddess - New Religious Movements
Goddess - Wicca and Neopaganism. Wiccan practice generally includes veneration of the Great Goddess along with the Horned God, though D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germania Book: Encyclopedia Ii - Germania Book - Purpose And Uses
Ethnography had a long and distinguished heritage in classical literature, and the Germania fits squarely within the tradition establishe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - Terminology
Germanic neopaganism - Ásatrú. Ásatrú is an Old Norse compound derived from Ása, the genitive of Áss, which refers to the Aesir, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - Distribution Of Adherents
Today, Germanic Neopaganism is practiced primarily in Scandinavia, Germany, Britain, North America, Australia and New Zealand. Small comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - Factions
Besides the Norse/Germanic mythology at its core, Heathenry has regional varieties of emphasis, often from the subjective interpretations...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - Tenets
Germanic Neopagan organizations generally favor democratic and republican forms of church government, as inspired by the parliamentary Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - Artistic Output And Influence
Grown out of 19th century Romanticism, the Viking revival had associations with the Gothic novel and Romantic art such as the Pre-Raphael...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Christianity - Timeline
In the 4th century some Germanic tribes, notably the Goths, adopted Arianism. From the 6th century, Germanic tribes were converted (and r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Christianity - Characteristics
Unlike the history of Christianity in the Roman Empire, conversion of the Germanic tribes took place "top to bottom", in the sense that m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Lithuania: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Lithuania - Grand Duchy Of Lithuania
History of Lithuania - Pagan Lithuania. In the early 13th century, two German religious orders, the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Lithuania: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Lithuania - Independent Interwar Lithuania 1918-1940
History of Lithuania - Freedom wars 1918-1922. The term "Freedom wars" refers to the three wars Lithuania was fighting to defend its te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Lithuania: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Lithuania - World War Ii 1940-1945
History of Lithuania - First Soviet occupation 1940-1941. Despite having a non-aggression pact signed and in force, Soviet Russia gave...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Lithuania: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Lithuania - Soviet Occupation 1944-1990
History of Lithuania - Stalinism. The mass deportation campaigns of 1941-52 exiled 29,923 families to Siberia and other remote parts of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Lithuania: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Lithuania - Independent Modern Lithuania 1990-2004
History of Lithuania - Struggle for independence 1990-1991. In 1990, Sąjūdis-backed candidates won the elections to the Lithuanian S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Lithuania: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Lithuania - Before Statehood
History of Lithuania - Baltic tribes. The first Lithuanians, or Liths, were a branch of an ancient group known as the Balts, whose trib...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Lithuania: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Lithuania - Polish-lithuanian Commonwealth 1569-1795
History of Lithuania - Early years of new state. With the Lublin Union of 1569 Poland and Lithuania formed a new state: the Republic of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Lithuania: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Lithuania - Imperial Russian Occupation 1795-1914
History of Lithuania - Domination of Russia. Following the third partition, the Russian Empire controlled the majority of Lithuania. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norse Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Norse Paganism - Worship
Norse paganism - Centres of faith. The Germanic tribes rarely or never had temples in a modern sense. The Blót, the form of worship pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odin: Encyclopedia Ii - Odin - Odin And Jesus
The 13th century eddaic account of Odin likely contains some Christian elements. The scene where Odin hangs from a tree as a sacrifice to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odin: Encyclopedia Ii - Odin - Persisting Beliefs In Odin
Snorri Sturluson's record of the Edda is striking evidence of the climate of religious tolerance in medieval Iceland, but even he feels c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odin: Encyclopedia Ii - Odin - Modern Age
Odin - Modern popular culture. Main article: Odin in popular culture With the Romantic Viking revival of the early-to-mid 19th centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odin: Encyclopedia Ii - Odin - Characteristics
Odin is an ambivalent deity; Old Norse (Viking Age) connotations of Odin lie with "poetry, inspiration" as well as with "fury, madness": ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odin: Encyclopedia Ii - Odin - Seid
The goddess Freyja is described as an adept of the mysteries of seid (shamanism), a völva, and it is said that it was she who initiated ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odin: Encyclopedia Ii - Odin - Blót
It is attested in primary sources that sacrifices were made to Odin during blóts. Adam of Bremen relates that every ninth year, people a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odin: Encyclopedia Ii - Odin - Edda
According to the Prose Edda, Odin was a son of Bestla and Borr and brother of Vé and Vili and together with these brothers he cast down ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thing Assembly: Encyclopedia Ii - Thing Assembly - Viking And Medieval Society
In the pre-Christian clan-culture of Scandinavia the members of a clan were obliged to avenge injuries against their dead and mutilated r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thing Assembly: Encyclopedia Ii - Thing Assembly - National Parliaments And Current Institutions
The national parliaments of Iceland, Norway and Denmark all have names that incorporate thing: Alþingi - The Icelandic General Thing Fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tyr: Encyclopedia Ii - Tyr - Origins
The name Tyr meant "god" (cf. Hangatyr, the "god of the hanged" as one of Odin's names) and goes back to a Proto-Germanic Tîwaz, continu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tyr: Encyclopedia Ii - Tyr - Tyr In The Edda
According to the Edda, at one stage the gods decided to shackle the wolf Fenrisulfr (Fenris), but the beast broke every chain they put up...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tyr: Encyclopedia Ii - Tyr - The Tyr Rune
The t-rune ᛏ is named after Tyr, and was identified with this god., the reconscructed Proto-Germanic name is Tîwaz. The rune is someti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Culture
See Germanic mythology, Germanic paganism, Migration Period art The Germanic tribes were each politically independent, under a hereditary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Culture
See Germanic mythology, Germanic paganism, Migration Period art The Germanic tribes were each politically independent, under a hereditary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodanaz: Encyclopedia Ii - Wodanaz - Shamanic Traits
The goddess Freya is described as an adept of the mysteries of seid (shamanism), a völva, and it is said that it was she who initiated O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodanaz: Encyclopedia Ii - Wodanaz - Worship
Details of the Migration period of Germanic religion are sketchy, reconstructed from artefacts, sparse contemporary sources, and later th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodanaz: Encyclopedia Ii - Wodanaz - Migration Period
The Anglo-Saxon tribes brought their pagan faith to England around the 5th and 6th centuries and continued in that form of worship until ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodanaz: Encyclopedia Ii - Wodanaz - Viking Age
Scandinavian Óðinn emerged from Proto-Norse *Wōdin during the Migration period, Vendel artwork (bracteates, image stones) depicting th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodanaz: Encyclopedia Ii - Wodanaz - Medieval Reception
As the chief god of the Germanic pantheon, Odin received particular attention from the early missionaries. For example, his day is the on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodanaz: Encyclopedia Ii - Wodanaz - Odin And Mercury
Less is known about the role of Odin as receiver of the dead among the more southern Germanic tribes. The Roman historian Tacitus probabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persecution Of Heathens: Encyclopedia Ii - Persecution Of Heathens - Middle Ages
While the early Christianization of the Goths, the Irish, the Franks and the Alamanni was achieved by peaceful missionary activity, facil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persecution Of Heathens: Encyclopedia Ii - Persecution Of Heathens - Middle Ages
While the early Christianization of the various Germanic peoples was achieved by various means, and was partly facilitated by the prestig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paganism In The Eastern Alps: Encyclopedia Ii - Paganism In The Eastern Alps - Krampus
The word Krampus originates from the Old High German word for claw (Krampen). In the Alpine region the Krampus is represented by a male i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goddess: Encyclopedia Ii - Goddess - Indo-european Religion
Goddess - Hinduism. Hinduism is a complex of various belief systems that sees many gods and goddesses as being representative of and/or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goddess: Encyclopedia Ii - Goddess - Abrahamic Religions
Monotheist cultures, which recognise only one central deity, generally do characterize that deity as male, implicitly already grammatical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goddess: Encyclopedia Ii - Goddess - Ancient Near East
Goddess - Egypt. Main articles: Egyptian religion, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]], and [[{{{5}}} ... See also:Godde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goddess: Encyclopedia Ii - Goddess - Secular Use
The term "goddess" has recently found an ever more popular and secular use to describe female sex appeal the males succumb to. Young sing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Christianity
The association between Christianity and fascism is highly contentious. Discussions of how Fascism and Christianity were linked in some E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Islam
Note: there is a merge proposal and vote on moving sections of the page Islamofascism (term) and sections of this page to a newly created...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Judaism
Because Jews suffered their worst national carnage during the Holocaust under the Fascist Nazis and their cohorts during the 20th century...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Paganism
Paganism, pantheism, Odinism, and groups celebrating the Nordic heroic warrior myths do not automatically intersect with fascism, White s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Terminology
Although the assertion that religious fundamentalists and militants are "fascists" can often be understood as a hyperbolic political atta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Fascism As A Social Movement
To understand how religion and fascism can merge, it is important to see the difference between fascism in state power and fascism as a s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persecution Of Heathens: Encyclopedia Ii - Persecution Of Heathens - Nazi Persecution
The leaders of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in Germany during the early 20th century, according to their private wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guido Von List: Encyclopedia Ii - Guido Von List - Ideology
List was strongly influenced by the Theosophical thought of Madame Blavatsky, which he blended with his own Wotanist religion and Germani...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Judaism
Because Jews suffered their worst national carnage during the Holocaust under the Fascist Nazis and their cohorts during the 20th century...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Paganism
Paganism, pantheism, Odinism, and groups celebrating the Nordic heroic warrior myths do not automatically intersect with fascism, White s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Terminology
Although the assertion that religious fundamentalists and militants are "fascists" can often be understood as a hyperbolic political atta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Fascism As A Social Movement
To understand how religion and fascism can merge, it is important to see the difference between fascism in state power and fascism as a s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Christianity
The association between Christianity and fascism is highly contentious. Discussions of how Fascism and Christianity were linked in some E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neofascism And Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Neofascism And Religion - Islam
The discussion of the existence of various forms of "Islamic fascism" is highly contentious. Critics associate the term "Islamic fascism"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heathenry: Encyclopedia Ii - Heathenry - What Heathens Do
Many of the ritual forms of blót - making an offering - and sumble (or symbel)- a ritual of toasting - are discussed under Asatru. Indee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis I: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis I - The Baptism Of Clovis
The conversion of Clovis to Roman Catholic Christianity, the religion of the majority of his subjects, strengthened the bonds between his...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dwarf: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Dwarf
DWARF - custodian of gems and metals in Norse and Germanic legend. (NAD)   (See also: DWARF , Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Di...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Poltergeist: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Poltergeist
Poltergeist: From the German, meaning “noisy spirit;” an old term for RSPK, resulting from a personification of the phenom...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ostura: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Ostura
OSTURA - German Goddess from whose name Easter comes. (NAD)   (See also: OSTURA , Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary) &...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Runes: Paganism Pagan Dictionary On Runes
RUNES: A set of symbols used both in divination and magickal work. There are several types will different origins- Scandinavian, Norse...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wiccancraeft: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Wiccancraeft
WICCANCRAEFT: Witchcraft or the Old Religion. Word of Germanic derivation.   (See also: WICCANCRAEFT , Witchcraft, Wicca, Paga...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wight: Witch Witchcraft Dictionary On Wight
WIGHT: Germanic term meaning *being* or *creature* applied to both spirits of an anabolic and catablic nature being able to influence ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Runes: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Runes
RUNES - set of symbols, used both in divination and magickal workings. Several different types of origins of Runes. e.g. Norse, Scandi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hex: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Hex
HEX: to work Magick to cause bad luck, or to protect...from the German word for Witch. a Hexenmeister is one who practices hexing...in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elder Futhark: Spiritual Dictionary On Elder Futhark
Elder Futhark: The German rune alphabet of 24 characters used c. 200 b.c.e. to 800 c.e.   (See also: Elder Futhark , Magic, Sh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asatru: Spiritual Dictionary On Asatru
Asatru: This term has been adopted to describe the modern restoration of the Germanic religion of Northern Europe. The literal meaning...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rune: Spiritual Dictionary On Rune
Rune: A character of the Germanic/Scandinavian alphabet.   The original meaning of the word "rune" in most of the Germ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Runes: Paganism Pagan Dictionary On Runes
RUNES: A set of symbols that are used both in divination and magickal workings. There are several types of runes with different origin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pagan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pagan
Pagan [from Latin paganus an inhabitant of the country, a villager; cf peasant]   Heathen, the Germanic parallel in origin and me...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tradition, Trad: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Tradition, Trad
Tradition or Trad: A term used by Neopagan and other Witches to refer to the exact distinctions between each body of organized sectari...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Berkana: Spiritual Dictionary On Berkana
Berkana: The 18h rune of the Elder Futhark, representing the letter b.   In most of the Germanic languages this rune has the mea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wunjo: Spiritual Dictionary On Wunjo
Wunjo: The god primarily associated with this rune is Wodan.... The name of this rune is usually translated by other rune-workers as &...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yule: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Yule
YULE: 1) the festival celebrated about Dec. 21, on the Winter Solstice (shortest day of year). 2) also called Alban Arthan, Jul, and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spinning: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Spinning
SPINNING: archaic means by which raw fiber is spun into thread with a distaff or spindle. In archaic times, it was figuratively believ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn
HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN: Founded in 1888 by Dr. William Wynn Westcott, Samuel Liddle MacGregor Mathers and Dr. W.R. Woodman ...   » Read the article