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Horselberg

Is this the Tannhauser Venusberg?

Grimm writes that the Hörselberg of Thuringia was still considered in the 10th through 14th centuries to be the residence of the German goddess Holda and her host. He cited legends of night-women in the service of dame Holda.  Those women rove through the air on appointed nights, mounted on beasts. He asserted that they were originally dæmonic elvish beings, who appeared in woman’s shape and did men kindnesses. Grimm asserted that the identity of...

January 2 — In the Centre of the Suspension: The Hearth and Its Keepers

When we spoke of the Whispering Nights, we noted that something unseen stirs in the dark. When we examined the Lost Calendars of December, we saw how modern time obscures thresholds that once guided inner life. When we observed the Secret Banquet of Christmas Day, we encountered continuity beneath the noise of surface celebration. Now, as the world speeds past January 1st with its tinsel discarded and its resolutions proclaimed, we find ourselves still within...

Kairos: Seizing the God of Opportunity

In our fast-paced world, time often feels like an unyielding force—minutes slip by, deadlines loom, and schedules dictate our lives. Yet the ancient Greeks saw time through a richer lens, dividing it into two distinct concepts: Chronos and Kairos. While Chronos represents the sequential, measurable ticking of the clock, Kairos embodies something far more elusive—the “right moment,” the critical opportunity that can change everything. Personified as a god in Greek mythology, Kairos is a figure of fascination, often depicted with […]...
Lemminki

Lemminkainen a hero of the Kalevala

llmarinen the Smith, was a young companion of the wizard and demi-god Väinämöinen. Väinämöinen was the god of chants, songs and poetry; in many stories Väinämöinen was the central figure at the birth of the world. llmarinen But llmarinen was a wizard in his own right. He loved the daughter of Louhi, Sorceress of the North. The maiden loved him, too, but Louhi made the wooing a rough one: She charged the young man to...

Maier files – The Wound That Let The ‘Dark Angel’ In: What Weimar Really Lost

There is a question underneath all the history that nobody quite asks directly. Not who funded the chaos. Not which lodges were operating in Berlin. Not even which political movements rose from the rubble. Those are the visible branches of something deeper. The question that matters is this: what was the inner condition of a people when everything collapsed at once? Because the dark angel doesn’t force its way in. It finds a door already...
Rolf Diettrich and Gudrun

Maier files & Rolf Dietrich

The attentive reader of the first episodes of Maier files will have noticed that the tale once told by Rolf Dietrich and the history of Otto Maier are filled with powerful themes and images that might provide a clue to the real hidden mystery, among them: the Rose Trail (Troj de Reses), web of woven silk, the knights in the line of Dietrich von Bern, the enchanted windmill, fiancée of the Month of May, the land beyond the North, Parzival […]...

Max Müller and the Forgotten War Over Europe’s Oldest Words

Few names from the 19th century radiate such quiet but enduring influence as that of Friedrich Max Müller, born on December 6, 1823, in Dessau. For the modern world he is remembered as a philologist, a scholar of the Vedas, and one of Oxford’s most celebrated professors. Yet behind the familiar biographical notes lies a far more intriguing figure. Müller stands at a threshold where linguistic science, comparative mythology, and the deeper undercurrents of European...
Mother goddesses Mary

Mother Goddesses and The Rose Ladies

There are circa 21,000 visions of Mary in the last 1,000 years, of which 210 were reported between 1928 and 1971. Remarkable fact is that even before Christianity visions and apparitions of Rose Ladies were seen. The most famous of last century (1917) was Fatima. According to Sister Lúcia (she was one of the children who saw the Virgin Mary), Mary requested the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart on several occasions. Mother Goddesses...

Navigating Norse Heathenism

In the rich tapestry of Old Norse literature, tales of encounters between Christian kings and the remnants of the old gods persist as fascinating narratives that reflect the complex interplay between the pagan past and the emerging Christian present. One such tale unfolds in the saga of Óláfs Saga Helga, captured vividly in the introductory quote. ‘Have you no desire to be like that king who was victorious against all whom he fought,who was handsome also, and accomplished in all […]...

Niorun’s Veil

Beneath the ghostly sway of the aurora—a curtain of shifting green and violet—Norse night came alive with powers both seen and hidden. Between whispering fir trees and the croon of an icy wind, the land held an ancient mystery: night did not simply bring darkness, but a threshold. Here, in the longhouses buried beneath snowdrifts, where the wind carried the secrets of gods and spirits, sleep was no escape. It was a voyage into realms...

Odin and the Odinic Mysteries

The date of the founding of the Odinic Mysteries is uncertain, some writers declaring that they were established in the first century before Christ; others, the first century after Christ. Robert Macoy, 33°, gives the following description of their origin: “It appears from the northern chronicles that in the first century of the Christian Era, Sigge, the chief of the Aser, an Asiatic tribe, emigrated from the Caspian sea and the Caucasus into northern Europe.  He...
Wali Widi Widar

Otto Maier’s hidden knowledge

Otto Maier’s secret texts. Is there more than meets the eye? Wali – Wili – Widi – Widar. In Eddic mythology Odin is avenged on the Fenris wolf by Widar. Wili is named alongside We as Odin‘s or Wotan’s brother. According to the third poem in the Poetic Edda, the vafthrudnismal (Vafþrúðnismál). Widar and Wali (who avenges Baldur and Hödur) rule over the sanctuary once Surtur’s flames have gone out. He is also called Ali and is said to be […]...

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