Northern European Mythology and Religion

I've been reading a lot of academic books on Buddhism for over twenty years, I like learning about religions and philosophy. I am not a religious person, really I am not, I am a curious person, I want to know how things work, including myself. This includes all the stuff we build around ourselves to protect us from the unknown, which includes our gods, faith, rituals, and beliefs.

I was fascinated by the TV series American Gods, which is about the ancient Gods that have been all but forgotten (Including Jesus) and the new gods of Technology. The Old Gods are not going to go quietly, and that was when I was introduced to Odin. I painted Mr. Wedensday who is Odin in the series. While I was painting, I looked up who Odin was and why he only had one eye. That's when I kinda fell in love with him, which is a very, very dangerous thing to do because I may end up losing more than my head if I get too close to him.

After Watching The First Season Of American Gods, My Second Drawing

My Husband found the Book called the Gap, which is about Northern Pagan Religion in reaction to the modern world. Which reminded me of Sophia Perennis, a group of philosophers fighting to keep the old traditions and religious views alive through philosophical discourse. I read a book review about the Gap and the movement behind it and found the author has read Rene Guenon's books, he is part of the Sophia Perennis group. I've only read a little of the book, the passage I copied from the book reminded me of the skull I drew last winter. I decided to share the drawing and the reading with my Steemian friends along with some book links and videos. Have a lovely weekend!

Woton

Gangraðrsmal

The whole word is a mound in which the man is confined.

Loki’s people are not aware that they are dead, do not see the funeral walls of their world and do not wish any better destiny outside their grave. Odin’s people, who realized their confinement and abandoned it, rush to interflow with the ambient Nature and gods. They become heroes, leaders and rulers of this world.

The mound is being erected in the likeness of this world, and the Universe is the same mound for those who have merged with it. Hoenir’s people are aware of their confinement in God and take the Way of Overcoming, the Exit of this even much bigger mound. In compliance with it there are three initiations, and nobody can initiate a man into them except He Himself.

The mound is being erected in the likeness of this world, and the Universe is the same mound for those who have merged with it.

Hoenir’s people are aware of their confinement in God and take the Way of Overcoming, the Exit of this even much bigger mound.

In compliance with it there are three initiations, and nobody can initiate a man into them except He Himself.

The First Initiation

– is sacrifice of the animality (Ego).

When the wolves Geri and Freki tear to pieces and greedily devour the thing you considered to be your very self at this stage. Overcoming animality in his self the human becomes the man.

The Second Initiation

– is the sacrifice of “human, all too human”.

When Odin Himself drinks the blood from the bowl of your skull, having overwhelmed with the Spear of Consciousness the thing you considered to be your very self before.

Overcoming the human in himself, the man becomes God.

The third initiation

– is the sacrifice of God (The Highest Ego).

When the human-God destroys the mound-Universe Odin sacrifices Himself to Himself, chaining Himself with the Spear of Consciousness to the World Tree, interflowing with the Shining Gap.

Odin is manifested in everything: He is the Creator of the Worlds, their Guardian and Destroyer.

He – Oðinn who pierced Himself to the Ash Yggdrasil, it means: Ygg – Horse, drasil – horseman, The Horseman of Ygg – Odin Himself.

He pierces Himself to Himself sacrificing Himself and slides down to the Gap revealing the main Secret from the inside.

And all this is developing in His Own Self, all of the Worlds are only the pattern of His Consciousness.

The Man can be the slave of his animality (Ego), as many other people are. The Man can be the slave of his humanity, as some other people are.

The Man can be the slave of God (Supreme Ego), as only few people are.

The Man can be Himself outside the slavery (Ego) and the slave-owning (the Highest Ego), and can manifest himself as the Shining Abyss – GinnungaGap.

Gap, A Left-Hand Path Approach to Odinism

Norse Mythology A Neil Gaiman Audiobook

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• The symbol of the Swastika and its 12,000-year-old history
• The Gap Book Review
• Rene Guenon Sophia Perennis
• Chhinnamasta is a goddess of contradictions: she "is both the food and the eater of food, thereby symbolizing the whole world by this act of being devoured and the devourer.

The Trantric Traditions of India and Tibetan Buddhism remind me of the Woton tradition and religion

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