The One-eyed God Odin and the (Indo-)Germanic Männerbünde by Kris Kershaw
This is much more than just solid, factual information about Odin and the people whose deity he was, for Odin was the god of the Einheriar, of the Germanic and Viking männerbünde, the furor Teutonicus and the war bands of the great folk wandering that shaped so much of the map of Europe as we know today. Here we have a broad and fascinating account of the Germanic ancestor cult, of the Wild Hunt, the eye in the well, wolf-men and werewolves, dragon-slayers, demon riders and Harlequin, Valhalla and Ragnorak. Odin/Wodan is presented to us as a divinity who was central to a warrior society the ramifications of which went far beyond the revered One-Eyed God of battle and knowledge. Organized into three sections, we are carried in the last of these far beyond Germany to find parallel institutions surviving amongst the wider Aryan kindred – among the Celts, Romans, Slavs and ancient Greeks, and still further, to the Indo-Aryans of Iran and the distant lands beyond the Indus, all sharing elements of a once common ancestral origin.
“It was a cultic warrior brotherhood, that is, the youths’ formation was as much religious as it was martial, and the ties that bound them were as strong as blood. The commonly used term for this cultic band is Männerbund, and this is the term we will use in this study. This is the herr of which Óđinn Herjann is the projection or personification, and of which his Einheriar are the mythical paradigm.” (Pg.18)
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eumeswil guy here, looking for advice on next book. I'm looking for another work of fiction to read. I absolutely love when scifi/fantasy is combined with reactionary ideas. Aside from eumeswil, my all time favorites include lord of the rings and all of the fiction from ayn rand. What should I pick up next?
I can't find anything about this but it looks interesting, so I'll give it a shot, thanks. looks like they're taking stuff down for copyright, eumeswil, got removed. I won't even try to post pdf since it's newer and more commercial, but I just finished Gene Wolf's Book of the new Sun, and the sequal Urth of the New Sun. Definitely some fascist background ideas, such as the pervading theme that race and breeding makes an individual what they are, and esoteric lore that any esoteric fascist or reader of Miguel Serrano will greatly appreciate. The PDF is out there, if you can't find with google, reply to this post and ill help you get it, just no point posting pdf now when it'll get this whole post deleted before anyone sees it.
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A complete scan of a School of the Americas manual. This one deals with how to recruit and run a confidential informant (CI). Still used by the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA under a new name).
If anyone has other SOA manuals (complete, English versions like this) please post them!