A modern Anglo-Saxon white dragon flag. The symbolic flag of Germanic Polytheist England.
卍 Albion, Britannia, & England 卐
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Albion
The earliest evidence of human population in pre-historic Albion is from approximately 900,000 years ago.
Pre-historic iron-age Albion existed from 800BCE to 43CE.
Pre-historic iron-age Albion in 42CE, was a Celtic land populated by Celtic tribes, practicing Celtic Polytheism.
Rome controlled Albion, & renamed it Britannia between 43CE to 410CE.
Rome called the tribes of Britain "Gauls", but the Britons called themselves Celts.
43CE was the year that Britain received its first history.
Celtic druids in were the priests, & wizards of Celtic Polytheist Britain.
Julius Cæsar mentions in his "Gallic Wars" that Celts who wanted to learn druidism went to Britain to do so.
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Rome
In polytheist Rome they tolerated monotheist Judaism as a superstition.
Originally polytheist Rome viewed monotheist Christianity as an irreligious, atheistic sub-sect of Judaism, & as a superstition.
Roman Emperor Constantine I (Constantine the Great - 306CE to 336CE) was the first Roman Emperor to convent to Christianity.
From the 2nd century onward the Roman Church Fathers condemned the diverse non-Christian religions practiced throughout the Roman Empire as "pagan".
By its end, Roman Britain was prominently a land of Celtic Polytheism, Roman Polytheism, Greek Polytheism, & Christian Monotheism.
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Sub-Roman Britain
Sub-Roman Britain (410CE to 449CE), the Britain left behind by the Romans as they returned to Rome, was mostly Christian.
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England
In the 5th century the Anglo-Saxon's arrived in Britain, bringing with them Historic English Polytheism, which remained their faith until their eventual official, and complete conversion to Christianity by the 9th century.
This conversion was mostly made for political reasons by the upper ruling classes to garner favour with the Catholic Pope, the benefits of joining "Christian Europe" were numerous, but most obvious are the diplomatic, and trade benefits. Due to this Historic English Polytheism all but vanished in Britain, & indeed Historic Germanic Polytheism all but vanished from Northern Europe entirely.
There is no evidence for Historic English Polytheism after 1030CE.
As time has passed, so has Christianity, and from the end of the 20th century, Germanic Polytheism returned to England in the form of Wodenism, and to many other Anglo descended people, such as those in the Commonwealth, and those in the former British colonies of the British Empire; The USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & South Africa.
Likewise Germanic Polytheism has returned to Northern Europe as Modern Germanic Polytheism, with proud Wotanists, Odenists, & Odinists surfacing across Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Austria, The Netherlands, and across into Russia.
Wodenism is a faith with approximately 1000 years (20 lifetimes at an average of 50 years) distance from Historic English Polytheism.
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Albion
The earliest evidence of human population in pre-historic Albion is from approximately 900,000 years ago.
Pre-historic iron-age Albion existed from 800BCE to 43CE.
Pre-historic iron-age Albion in 42CE, was a Celtic land populated by Celtic tribes, practicing Celtic Polytheism.
Rome controlled Albion, & renamed it Britannia between 43CE to 410CE.
Rome called the tribes of Britain "Gauls", but the Britons called themselves Celts.
43CE was the year that Britain received its first history.
Celtic druids in were the priests, & wizards of Celtic Polytheist Britain.
Julius Cæsar mentions in his "Gallic Wars" that Celts who wanted to learn druidism went to Britain to do so.
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Rome
In polytheist Rome they tolerated monotheist Judaism as a superstition.
Originally polytheist Rome viewed monotheist Christianity as an irreligious, atheistic sub-sect of Judaism, & as a superstition.
Roman Emperor Constantine I (Constantine the Great - 306CE to 336CE) was the first Roman Emperor to convent to Christianity.
From the 2nd century onward the Roman Church Fathers condemned the diverse non-Christian religions practiced throughout the Roman Empire as "pagan".
By its end, Roman Britain was prominently a land of Celtic Polytheism, Roman Polytheism, Greek Polytheism, & Christian Monotheism.
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Sub-Roman Britain
Sub-Roman Britain (410CE to 449CE), the Britain left behind by the Romans as they returned to Rome, was mostly Christian.
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England
In the 5th century the Anglo-Saxon's arrived in Britain, bringing with them Historic English Polytheism, which remained their faith until their eventual official, and complete conversion to Christianity by the 9th century.
This conversion was mostly made for political reasons by the upper ruling classes to garner favour with the Catholic Pope, the benefits of joining "Christian Europe" were numerous, but most obvious are the diplomatic, and trade benefits. Due to this Historic English Polytheism all but vanished in Britain, & indeed Historic Germanic Polytheism all but vanished from Northern Europe entirely.
There is no evidence for Historic English Polytheism after 1030CE.
As time has passed, so has Christianity, and from the end of the 20th century, Germanic Polytheism returned to England in the form of Wodenism, and to many other Anglo descended people, such as those in the Commonwealth, and those in the former British colonies of the British Empire; The USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & South Africa.
Likewise Germanic Polytheism has returned to Northern Europe as Modern Germanic Polytheism, with proud Wotanists, Odenists, & Odinists surfacing across Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Austria, The Netherlands, and across into Russia.
Wodenism is a faith with approximately 1000 years (20 lifetimes at an average of 50 years) distance from Historic English Polytheism.
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The 5th century migration pattern of the Anglo-Saxons.
卍 The Ingwine 卐
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The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56CE to 120CE) recorded the myths of the Germanic tribes.
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Tacitus wrote Tiw (Latinised as Tui) was the father of Tiwaz (Latinised as Tuisto), who was the father of Man (Latinised as Mannus), who was the father of Ing whose people where great sailors, Irmin whose people were great warriors, & Istaev whose people where great horsemen.
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The descendants of Ing are the Ingvaeones, they spoke in the Ingvaeonic dialect of North Sea Germanic.
The Ingvaeones were the Germanic cultural group living in Northern Germania, along the North Sea coast, in Jutland, Holstein, & Frisia.
The Ingvaeones belonged to the tribes of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisii, & Chauci.
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The Latin name Ingvaeones describes the Ingvaeon, which in Old-English is the Ingwine, which means "the friends of Ing".
In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, the Danish King Hrothgar is "Lord of the Ingwine".
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The Ingwine are the English.
The English are the Angles, Saxons, Jutes.
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Man is honoured as the name of the English M rune (ᛗ).
Ing is honoured as the name of the English Ng rune. (ᛝ).
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The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56CE to 120CE) recorded the myths of the Germanic tribes.
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Tacitus wrote Tiw (Latinised as Tui) was the father of Tiwaz (Latinised as Tuisto), who was the father of Man (Latinised as Mannus), who was the father of Ing whose people where great sailors, Irmin whose people were great warriors, & Istaev whose people where great horsemen.
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The descendants of Ing are the Ingvaeones, they spoke in the Ingvaeonic dialect of North Sea Germanic.
The Ingvaeones were the Germanic cultural group living in Northern Germania, along the North Sea coast, in Jutland, Holstein, & Frisia.
The Ingvaeones belonged to the tribes of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisii, & Chauci.
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The Latin name Ingvaeones describes the Ingvaeon, which in Old-English is the Ingwine, which means "the friends of Ing".
In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, the Danish King Hrothgar is "Lord of the Ingwine".
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The Ingwine are the English.
The English are the Angles, Saxons, Jutes.
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Man is honoured as the name of the English M rune (ᛗ).
Ing is honoured as the name of the English Ng rune. (ᛝ).
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Specific tribal regions of the Jutes, Angles, & Saxons.
卍 Man 卐
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In our Germanic mythos, Man fathered the people.
Mankind are the kind that are like man.
The term man is sex-neutral, describing male, & female men.
A wereman (wer-man) was a male man.
The term were (wer) to mean a male man persists today in the word werewolf.
A wifeman (wyf-man) was a female man.
A wife (wyf) was not a married female man, a wife is a female man.
Wifeman became woman.
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Today, legally, if you kill a man, you have committed manslaughter.
The man slaughtered in this case may be male, or female.
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The Greek term anthropos was the equivalent to the English term man.
The Old-Latin term homo was the equivalent to the English term man.
The Modern-Latin term human comprises of two parts: hu (of) & man (mankind).
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Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707CE to 10 January 1778CE) coined the term Homo Sapiens in his work Systema Nutrae (1735CE).
Homo means man, sapiens means of wisdom.
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Men are a form of animal.
Animal means a being with animus.
Animus is that which causes movement.
Animus is equated to breath, life, vitality, & life-force.
When something moves it becomes animated.
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In our Germanic mythos, Man fathered the people.
Mankind are the kind that are like man.
The term man is sex-neutral, describing male, & female men.
A wereman (wer-man) was a male man.
The term were (wer) to mean a male man persists today in the word werewolf.
A wifeman (wyf-man) was a female man.
A wife (wyf) was not a married female man, a wife is a female man.
Wifeman became woman.
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Today, legally, if you kill a man, you have committed manslaughter.
The man slaughtered in this case may be male, or female.
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The Greek term anthropos was the equivalent to the English term man.
The Old-Latin term homo was the equivalent to the English term man.
The Modern-Latin term human comprises of two parts: hu (of) & man (mankind).
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Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707CE to 10 January 1778CE) coined the term Homo Sapiens in his work Systema Nutrae (1735CE).
Homo means man, sapiens means of wisdom.
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Men are a form of animal.
Animal means a being with animus.
Animus is that which causes movement.
Animus is equated to breath, life, vitality, & life-force.
When something moves it becomes animated.
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7th century tribal settlements of the Anglo-Saxons.
卍 Woden in the Anglo-Saxon Royal Genealogies 卐
Woden (Ƿoden) listed as an ancestor of Ælfwald of East Anglia in the Textus Roffensis from the 12th century.
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According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, composed during the reign of Alfred the Great, Woden was the father of Wecta, Beldeg, Wihtgils and Wihtlaeg and was therefore an ancestor of the Kings of Wessex, Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia.
As in Bede's Ecclesiastical History, a history of early Anglo-Saxon migration to Britain incorporating Woden as an ancestor of Hengest, & Horsa is given:
"These men came from three tribes of Germany: from the Old-Saxons, from the Angles, and from the Jutes ... their commanders were two brothers, Hengest, & Horsa, that were the sons of Wihtgils. Wihtgils was Witta's offspring, Witta Wecta's offspring, Wecta Woden's offspring. From that Woden originated all our royal family..."
Descent from Woden appears to have been an important concept in Early Medieval England. According to N. J. Higham, claiming Woden as an ancestor had by the 8th century become an essential way to establish royal authority.
Richard North (1997CE) similarly believes that "no king by the late seventh century could do without the status that descent from Woden entailed."
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According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, composed during the reign of Alfred the Great, Woden was the father of Wecta, Beldeg, Wihtgils and Wihtlaeg and was therefore an ancestor of the Kings of Wessex, Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia.
As in Bede's Ecclesiastical History, a history of early Anglo-Saxon migration to Britain incorporating Woden as an ancestor of Hengest, & Horsa is given:
"These men came from three tribes of Germany: from the Old-Saxons, from the Angles, and from the Jutes ... their commanders were two brothers, Hengest, & Horsa, that were the sons of Wihtgils. Wihtgils was Witta's offspring, Witta Wecta's offspring, Wecta Woden's offspring. From that Woden originated all our royal family..."
Descent from Woden appears to have been an important concept in Early Medieval England. According to N. J. Higham, claiming Woden as an ancestor had by the 8th century become an essential way to establish royal authority.
Richard North (1997CE) similarly believes that "no king by the late seventh century could do without the status that descent from Woden entailed."
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The White Horse Stone.
卍 Hengest, & Horsa 卐
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Here we have "The Upper White Horse Stone" in Kent. According to the 6th century writer Gildas, the first of the Saxon newcomers in the 5th century were the Jutish brothers Hengest (Stallion), & Horsa (Horse), two warrior leaders brought in by the Celt Vortigern, to evict the Picts between about 449-456.
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According to Bede (Saint Bede the Venerable, Father of English History), Hengest, & Horsa were the sons of Wictgils (Jutish Chieftain), son of Witta (Jutish Chieftain), son of Wecta (King of East Saxony), son of Woden.
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After completing this mercenary task, they decided to stay on, against Vortigern's wishes. At a battle near Aylesford in Kent, Horsa was killed, and the still visible "White Horse Stone" is said to be where he is buried, and is thus an important place to modern Wodenists as a memorial to one of the two human sources of English Wodenism.
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It lies off the A229 Maidstone-Chatham road, near to where the Pilgrims Way, and the more modern Channel Tunnel link cross it. It can be found via a footpath near to a garage.
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Here we have "The Upper White Horse Stone" in Kent. According to the 6th century writer Gildas, the first of the Saxon newcomers in the 5th century were the Jutish brothers Hengest (Stallion), & Horsa (Horse), two warrior leaders brought in by the Celt Vortigern, to evict the Picts between about 449-456.
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According to Bede (Saint Bede the Venerable, Father of English History), Hengest, & Horsa were the sons of Wictgils (Jutish Chieftain), son of Witta (Jutish Chieftain), son of Wecta (King of East Saxony), son of Woden.
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After completing this mercenary task, they decided to stay on, against Vortigern's wishes. At a battle near Aylesford in Kent, Horsa was killed, and the still visible "White Horse Stone" is said to be where he is buried, and is thus an important place to modern Wodenists as a memorial to one of the two human sources of English Wodenism.
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It lies off the A229 Maidstone-Chatham road, near to where the Pilgrims Way, and the more modern Channel Tunnel link cross it. It can be found via a footpath near to a garage.
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The modern white horse flag of the county of Kent, officially in use since the 13th of October 1933.
卍 The Externsteine Rocks 卐
The Externsteine rocks, Detmold, Germany is home of this relief, which shows the trampling of Historic Germanic Polytheism by Christianity.
Note the cross erected over the bowing Irminsul.
Note the cross erected over the bowing Irminsul.