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Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age.

Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in Iceland.

“I don’t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet,” said Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high priest of Ásatrúarfélagið, an association that promotes faith in the Norse gods.

“We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.”

Membership in Ásatrúarfélagið has tripled in Iceland in the last decade to 2,400 members last year, out of a total population of 330,000, data from Statistics Iceland showed.

The temple will be circular and will be dug 4 metres (13ft) down into a hill overlooking the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, with a dome on top to let in the sunlight.

“The sun changes with the seasons so we are in a way having the sun paint the space for us,” Hilmarsson said.

The temple will host ceremonies such as weddings and funerals. The group will also confer names to children and initiate teenagers, similar to other religious communities.

Iceland’s neo-pagans still celebrate the ancient sacrificial ritual of Blot with music, reading, eating and drinking, but nowadays leave out the slaughter of animals.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/02/iceland-temple-norse-gods-1000-years
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Mike Nelson here.
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Gross....
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Wotan Clan Aint Nothin To Fuck With
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i don't believe in a couple of rich beardy Jews in the 19th century who figure out the fundamental economic contradictions of our era, but its a very spiritual metaphor
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littlegreenpills posted:

i don't believe in a couple of rich beardy Jews in the 19th century who figure out the fundamental economic contradictions of our era, but its a very spiritual metaphor



this but antisemitism

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Mike Nelson here.
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I'm part-Scottish. I don't really think that counts though. Just generic whiteness. It could be anywhere Western European, just happened to be Scottish. Therefore I identify as a Slavo-Canadian.
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i want to have a viking funeral. wouldnt have to be elaborate, just put me in a rowboat soaked in kerosene and push me out into a pond. im sure somebody could scrounge up a cheap bow and arrow
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that looks fuking awesome
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The only thing better than taking the Abbasid caliph's wives as forced concubines is sacrificing his children at the Great Blot for the prestige and vassal opinion bonus
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The characteristic thing about these people is that they rave about old Germanic heroism, about dim prehistory, stone axes spear and shield, but in reality are the greatest cowards that can be imagined. For the same people who brandish scholarly imitations of old German tin swords, and wear a dressed bearskin with bull's horns over their bearded heads, preach for the present nothing but struggle with spiritual weapons, and run away as fast as they can from every Communist blackjack. Posterity will have little occasion to glorify their own heroic existence in a new epic.

I came to know these people too well not to feel the profoundest disgust at their miserable play-acting.
-Hitler, basically calling neopagans LARPers
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TG posted:

i want to have a viking funeral. wouldnt have to be elaborate, just put me in a rowboat soaked in kerosene and push me out into a pond. im sure somebody could scrounge up a cheap bow and arrow



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conec posted:

Thats me. Bulimia is not a joke

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political car tune
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let xhir join the skeleton marxist army ranks
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political car tune
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What of the Mongols?
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Mike Nelson here.
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conec posted:

Cos honey she`s a nightmare dressed like a daydream ~*~

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