What IS Irminenschaft?
Irminenschaft represents the German Heathen expression as it has evolved over the centuries. It is the spiritual and cultural expression of those who hail from bloodlines of German descent (including both High- and Low-Germans). Our triuwa (faith, fidelity, loyalty) is not a retro-Heathen endeavour, nor is it a “wake up this morning” New Age ideology proper, but a viable, living approach to ancient thau (custom) and practice as is has been handed down to us. Thus, it is as pragmatic and alive as are the Volk (people) that carry on its traditions. The ethnic Being of the Germanic Volk is a complex manifestation- one that exists today as a result of Rita (Cosmic Law) as well as the socio-political history that has affected us.
Today's Germanen are truly a synthesis of ethnic form- we are the descendents of the various tribes -Saxons, Goths, Franks, etc.- which have come to compose the entirety and Being of our evolved Germanic cultural dynamic. As such, we don't claim to be Saxons, Franks, or any of the other properly autonomous tribes which make up that ethnicity. Likewise, our interest isn't in the re-establishment of a single tribal entity, socio-cultic form or Being -this, after all, neglects to recognize the due place of those other tribal influences which have contributed to our current ethnicity or Being in true form, as have developed over timeless generations according to Rita. Irminenschaft is firmly rooted in the thau of our forebears, it is all that which is truly Real and Immediate, founded upon the very primal layers and truths which have shaped our Germanic folk since the dawning of the ages... it is the Heathen expression as it has come to be made manifest by that Ordering, that which has both survived and thrived openly, encrypted within other forms, or hidden beneath some thin veneer.
Irminenschaft is the triuwa of those who gather about the foot of the mighty, Holy column of Irmin- the All-sustaining, All-supporting World Tree which holds within its boughs and roots all of the realms of Being and Order- in celebration and honor, in fulfillment of that established commitment and trust to our Gods and Forebears as was done for countless generations before the coming of the Christian age. As the eldritch wisdoms of our Germanic Fathers and Mothers tell us, four roads branch out from that All-enduring column, and it is these same roads -the paths of the All-pervading Holy Rita which rightfully leads us back to the root of our Being, and the source-spring of our very blood!
Alaf Sal Fena!
Today's Germanen are truly a synthesis of ethnic form- we are the descendents of the various tribes -Saxons, Goths, Franks, etc.- which have come to compose the entirety and Being of our evolved Germanic cultural dynamic. As such, we don't claim to be Saxons, Franks, or any of the other properly autonomous tribes which make up that ethnicity. Likewise, our interest isn't in the re-establishment of a single tribal entity, socio-cultic form or Being -this, after all, neglects to recognize the due place of those other tribal influences which have contributed to our current ethnicity or Being in true form, as have developed over timeless generations according to Rita. Irminenschaft is firmly rooted in the thau of our forebears, it is all that which is truly Real and Immediate, founded upon the very primal layers and truths which have shaped our Germanic folk since the dawning of the ages... it is the Heathen expression as it has come to be made manifest by that Ordering, that which has both survived and thrived openly, encrypted within other forms, or hidden beneath some thin veneer.
Irminenschaft is the triuwa of those who gather about the foot of the mighty, Holy column of Irmin- the All-sustaining, All-supporting World Tree which holds within its boughs and roots all of the realms of Being and Order- in celebration and honor, in fulfillment of that established commitment and trust to our Gods and Forebears as was done for countless generations before the coming of the Christian age. As the eldritch wisdoms of our Germanic Fathers and Mothers tell us, four roads branch out from that All-enduring column, and it is these same roads -the paths of the All-pervading Holy Rita which rightfully leads us back to the root of our Being, and the source-spring of our very blood!
Alaf Sal Fena!