Every faith has the echoes of seers from its earliest times. They project what each imagines the Fates hold in store for a folk, or for mankind, generally. In three highly circulated prophetic works, the Christian Revelation, the Hindi Mahabharata (although this is a sacred epic, it does contain many prophecies), and the Eddaic Voluspa, all foretell that something is coming.

Perhaps we humans suffer a desire for instant gratification, as we fear stagnation, too slow progress, or deterioration. A great many people simply feel that the present social fabric, woven, as it is, with the warp of debt-financing, and the weft of dislocation, alienation, and the destruction of tribal identities, cannot last. It must disintegrate, a common agreement, with some feeling that this forebodes a cataclysm, and others that it promises a new golden age. Perhaps this is each person’s expectation or a negative prophetic frame of reference, i.e., the expectation that societies must rise up to a higher level of evolution and the person’s positive expectation of rising in tone with it, or, conversely, the visceral feeling that one is an alienated, useless speck of protoplasm, that one’s life and institutions are meaningless, and that all would be well were these swept away in a flood of change.

As Asatruar it is certainly our desire to be in line with the ideal of continuing evolution for the folk and the desire to see a positive growth take place, even if it does mean a time of hardship must come before it. But what about the prophecies of Asatru? Let me step aside to assert that I do not claim to speak for everyone on this matter, and realize that not every Odinist or Asatruar will concur. Please note, though, that what you will find here is based upon much investigative discovery.

To fully understand what I am postulating, allow me to share thoughts on our cosmology. Only when we are grounded in a proper cosmological perspective can we make sense of our prophetic traditions.

Let us begin with Yggdrasil, the World-Tree, our symbol for the ordered universe. Many have taken its design literally and think it a record of three or nine world array. In the original Heathen cosmology there are four realms: Asgard, Midgard, Jormungrund, and Utgard. The balance of the ‘nine worlds’, Surtheim, Nifelheim, Vanaheim, Jotunheim, and Alfheim, are all nations within Jormungrund, the Great Ground of Being, as are Helheim, Odainsakr, and Glaesisvellir. (All of this, and a wonderful overview of Teutonic Theology can be found in Teutonic Mythology, vol. I ch. 65 and 93).

Asgard, Midgard, and Jormungrund represent the order of life with the Gods on top in Asgard, humans in the middle, and a blend of the deceased and the divine below. Even the demons of Nifelhel serve a purpose in the divine order, for they punish the wrongdoers who perished from Midgard. Most of the accounts of evil Jötuns, in fact, probably all of them, show that they are either mutated children of chaos or that they were once friends of the gods and later revelled against them.

Utgard is the chaos from which they are descended, the same chaos which they promote and represent. This at the border of Ginungagap. Ginungagap is, itself, an important construct, for it is the space, the “magical void” in which the cosmic order arises and exists. Now, I do not believe that there are only two other worlds with humans like us, Nordics, on them elsewhere in the universe. Without adopting the notion of ‘other dimensions’ or ‘spirit worlds’ I have accepted the Nyall supposition that these “gards” represent lines of life throughout the cosmos. There is the divine- Asgard, the human- Midgard, and the demonic of chaotic- Utgard. The Nyall philosophy calls these lines Lifstefna, Pimigene, and Helstefna.

Within the ‘gards’ are, literally, millions of worlds that exist interdependently within the living universe. When something goes bad for one world all of the other worlds will be affected. This is the wisdom of the ancients. When the gods fought the great theomachy, recorded in the Eddas, between the Aesir and Vanir, two sometimes competing families of gods, a similar conflict was recorded between teutonic tribes, one led by Svipdag, the other by Halfdan.

However, even heroes of the past take on an otherwordly appearance, as does Svipdag, son of the goddess Groa, and the archer-god/dwarf Orvandel. When Fimbulwinter plagued Asgard, Midgard suffered as well. Of course, in the prophecy of Voluspa Midgard is destroyed when Asgard and Jormungrund are scorched by Surt’s flames. All of the sources point to a synergy between worlds. We know that worlds are connected by strands in the Web of Wyrd.

One series of events in the history of our faith stands out above the others- that being, of course, the Christian invasions of Europe. Certainly some heathen lore existed which explained why the gods were being driven out by a foreign cult. Some evidence may point to the idea that these invasions were the equivalent of Ragnarök in the divine. Both the Old Norse Ragnarök and the German Gotterdamerung have the same meaning. “Twilight of the Gods”. Since Europe was completely pagan before the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the years 306-337 C.E. and was almost totally dominated by the church 700 years later by the time of Iceland’s conversion in 1000 C.E., one could say that this was the age of Ragnarök, the age of the “Twilight of the Gods”.

To understand the model of the universe given by Yggdrasil and the implications of a synergy between worlds, we can assume that the inquisitions had their divine counterpart. However, it may not be necessary to go so far as to say that this was Ragnarök. After all, the faith in the old gods may have waned in Europe, but it never truly died out. So what was the pagan belief about these events? In Europe, the Christian assault on pagans, in which, even as early at the 4th century Rome, pagan children were executed for playing with toys representing the pre-Semitic faith, was characterized as “the war between the Red Thor and the White Christ”. Most likely its place in the ancient lore would best fit with the story of Fimbulvetr, where the powers of darkness covered the world in despair, seduced the folk with their vile doctrine, and caused the gods to lose much of their power and influence. This would place three major historical events within the Fimbulvetr lore, two of which we have already discussed: 1. The last Ice Age. 2. The sinking of sacred lands after the Ice Age ended. 3. The Dark Ages.

In this lore the vengeful Valand used his powers of sorcery to cover the worlds in ice and snow, the border watch held by the Ivaldi sons to keep the Jötuns out of Midgard had been abandoned, Idun, Freyr, and Hreyja were abducted from Asgard, and the malevolant Gullveig went about teaching her black magic to the folk. “Scarcely one day passed over the course of many years when Valand was not alternating between the work in his smithy and moments of singing his dreadful galdr song. It penetrated through the earth and turned its waters to waste. Year after year the fields in Midgard sprouted shorter straw and thinner ears and that which was left to harvest was ravaged every so often by the frosty nights. The humans sacrificed to the gods in vain and began to question their power.” (Fädernas Gudasaga ch. 25)

With the folk questioning the power of the gods in one instance, and being seduced by Gullveig’s sorcery in another, one can easily see how this could fit to the history of the Christian invasions. The fact that we here see the power of the gods wane, and then later return in what would seem to be a more purified form certainly relates to the history of Asatru itself. Those who worship the old gods see it as a blessing that our faith is kept out of the mainstream. A few thousands dedicated adherents in better than a few million dabblers.

So now let us begin to look towards the future, to the prophecies made by our holy seers of the past in the few documents we have that present such testimony.

It is Voluspa that gives us the final word o the universal synergy in strophes 35, 39 and 50. In these, we are warned repeatedly of dangers “from the East”, yet we must remember that this is within the context of the divine worlds. The Meditiative Paradigms of Seidr [§54] tells us about the riders from “the East” and history gives us the account of the dangers Europe has faced from Eastern peoples, Magyars, Tartars, Huns and Mongols. Even the destructive religions of the Middle East show that the Europeans has many problems from that direction. Voluspa also describes future events, as so the Seidr Paradigms and Oera Linda Book as well. (For our purposes here we are going to look at the prophecies of The Seidr Paradigms in comparison with the others, though it is strongly encouraged to take these with a grain of salt. Hopefully in the future some more work will be done with this as a modern addition to the Asatru hierology, changing its name and removing the word “Seidr” as a holy art from within the text [as in §24 and §56]).

Since it is O.L.B. that we are investigating here, we begin with its prophecy and will compare those of other sources to it. The prophetic timeline is based, like most things in the pagan world view, upon a cycle, which in this case began in the year 2193 B.C.E., as reflected in the text’s first page. It’s prophecy is laid out, initially, on pg. 52:

“In the time that Aldland is sunken, stood the first spoke of the Yule on top. There after is he gone down and our freedom with him. When he has rolled down two spokes of 2000 years, so shall the sons stand up whom the princes and priests have sired by the folk through whoredom and witness against their dads. They shall succumb to murder, but what they have said shall remain further in the bosoms of the stout-hearted people, this like good sees which is laid down in thy womb. Yet a thousand years shall the spoke incline downward and all the more sink in the gloom and in blood, spilled through the class-level of the princes and priests. Thereafter (i.e. after another 1000 years- see illustration) shall the dawn again begin to glare. Seeing this, shall the false princes and priests struggle and wrestle together against freedom, but freedom, love and harmony shall take the folk in their guard and with the Yule rise out of the vile pool. That light which first only glimmered, shall then gradually become a flame. The blood of the evil shall stream over thy body, but thou mightest not take it naught to thee. At last (i.e. another 1000 years, see illustration) shall the venomous creature prey thereupon and die thereof. All of vile histories which are intended to exalt the princes shall be offered to the flame. Furthermore shall all thy children live in peace.”

There are statements in Voluspa that relate to the above in regards to the coming of Ragnarök. We are told that right before the final conflict “Promises and oaths are not respected, spouses desert one another, brothers become the bane of brothers, and sisters’ sons shed each others blood.” Gullveig and Loki planted the seeds that sprout in the hearts of men and lead them to the paths mentioned above for the prices and priests.

Each spoke of the Yule Wheel marks a thousand year point in the timeline of European civilization, corresponding to special events and the development of our cultures and societies. The entire Yule wheel represents a 5,000 year cycle that has 3,000 years of decline and 2,000 years of ascension, just as appears on the wheel:

(In the coming narrative, take the words “thereafter” and “at least” to signify further movements to the spokes of the wheel, as the prophecy continues to unfold in pages 84-85.)

“But as the priests shall ween that they have snuffed out the light if Frya and of Jesus (a very different, and thus heretical image is given in the text’s account, which supposedly precedes the New Testament- a teacher who is not divine), so shall their people in all areas, stand up who have preserved truth in stillness among each other and hidden it among the priests. These shall be out of the blood of princes, of the blood of Slavs, and of Frya’s blood. They shall bring out their foddiks and the light, so that all people may see the truth; they shall cry woe over the deeds of the priests and princes. The princes who love truth and right, they shall shrink away from the priests. Finda’s folk shall put its cleverness to the common need, the Lyda’s folk its strength and we our wisdom. Then shall the false priests be swept away from the eart. Wralda’s ghost shall everywhere and always be honored and hailed. The law whereby Wralda, at the beginning, bestowed will upon us, shall alone be obeyed, there shall not be no other masters nor princes nor bosses than those that are chosen by the common will. Then shall Frya rejoice and Earth shall only give her gifts to the working people. All this shall begin four thousand years after Atland is sunken (1807 C.E.) and a thousand years later there no longer be any priests nor (tyrannical) force upon earth.”

From this we can see that there is a clearly marked prophetic cycle, represented by the Yule, the wheel of time, which shows how things will take place in each age. As stated earlier, the sinking of Aldland may have been related to Freyja’s curse on Hadding after he killed her husband, Svipdag. It may have been that for our ancestors this marked the end of the primal age when the gods have constant contact with our folk. Indeed, within the saga as proven by Rydberg we see that this is the last time it is written that the gods make an actual appearance before human eyes. So the Yule, beginning with the sinking of this land, would act as a countdown from this time to that of Ragnarök and the rebirth. Like the “ages” of the Hindus this cycle manifests a connection to the universe where each age, each spoke on the wheel, signifies the rise and decline of human civilization. The Hindus claim that this has something to do with the relation of our sun to its “dual” star elsewhere in the universe. The farther away we are from this “dual” the more our civilization declines; the closer we are to it the closer we get to the Golden Age.

The beginning of the decline was marked long ago in western society with the invasions of Imperial Rome, the Christian Crusades, subsequent Inquisitions, the Dark Ages, the Black Death, and the destructions of Pagan cultures. Look at what is said in The Seidr Paradigms, a very believable and possibly accurate history:

“At market came the Man of Power, only a glimpse, to stare, then he fades from sight. Simple lives the vitki (a shaman) and none may know where. His sons upon the hawk’s path flown, he tends far borders, rushes, fens. He quickly speaks out his staves (does divination with runes staves) for who have not will envy. Who envy will wound with the tongue or harm with the spear. He finds those who will counsel, does the Man of Power: none find him, nor is he known to others but as a herder of swine (how he appears to the uninitiated, and his livelihood). As the woolen men (Christian monks) were about with the men-at-arms (papal mercenaries) he reached into his cart, ‘mats of rushes! Well-woven mats of rushes!’ ”

Pagans, fearing a cruel death, hid their faith in order to survive. There are records of family betrayals at witch “trials”, stories of horrible tortures, such as that of the Pagan martyr Raud the Strong, who was had a serpent forced down his throat until it came out of his body and he died, but never did he renounce his faith. At its worst, the spiritual anti-matter of Christianity had people all over Europe and the Muslim world afraid to look up at the sky, else they be arrested on suspicion of practicing astrology. In the upside-down world of despotic theocracy, as in the more sinister statements of today’s Pat Robertson, we can see how the vents of Ragnarök unfold.

In the timeline of the wheel we see how a series of historical events matches what is represented here. Aldland’s sinking matches a point in time where such an event was certainly plausible, as we have seen. The second spoke marks the beginning of the descent, when Christianity began to take its graps on Europe. This continues on down to the bottom spoke, when the Christian empire had a firm grasp on our culture. Later things began tom get better, as we see in the Wheel as well. That we look to the coming of Ragnarök as an ascension to the wheel, which is clearly noted in O.L.B., shows the heathen attitude towards death and the final conflict. We shall not fear the coming apocalypse, for we know it will be the beginning of a much needed cleansing of the immoral cesspool that our world has become. Our folk see a new dawn coming and are willing to sacrifice their lives for a better tomorrow.

What is important is that we have never been completely defeated, and our faith, which bears the scars of many centuries of oppression and has still thrived in spite of it, will never truly die out. Despite theocratic efforts at control, democracy, liberty and even modern fashions in music and body modifications originate in and give voice from Pagan world views. Still, “the false princes and priests struggle and wrestle together against freedom”, but it is necessary that this is so. Corrupt politicians, anti-White gate propaganda, and genocidal resettlements of others given preference against native White everywhere will define the last wicked actions of the World Serpent. When the dust settles after corruption is overthrown, the “blood of the evil shall stream over thy body” and “at last shall the venomous creature prey thereupon and die thereof”. We will rise again as a nation, wiser, stronger, and better off from the struggle. In order for us to prepare for the coming end we will have to unite, even if it is only to face death, for with death comes rebirth. In order for us to secure the next Golden Age for our descendants, we will need the age of tyranny to ring in our hearts to remind us of how bad things can become if we are not vigilant, as the burghmaidens warn in O.L.B., for those who preserve liberty, “Watch! Watch!”

Compare the above with these words from Saxo Grammaticu’ Historia Danica (Book 5, Part 1): “Callow is the man who has never tasted the cup of sorrow: and no man who has not suffered hardships is temperate at enjoying ease.”

So what does all this mean for us today? Well, it is important for us to keep our Pagan traditions alive by researching and recording all that we can and rebuilding our faith to the point it was before the Christians came so long ago. Indeed, this has already been prophesied for us in The Meditative Paradigms of Seidr (§56):

“Darkness comes, the carts of stones hauled by tax slaves for the hooded ones to build (churches or cathedrals). Seidr (wisdom), you shall speak man-to-man and woman-to-woman, shall whisper true to grandson brave. Turn to the heath and know it, for beyond this time Sigurd shall rebirth to us, yet many his dragons and fierce then, say the gydja (priestess). Slay he or be slain, the sons of his warriors shall set to the shaven wood (“bok”, from which derives the English word “book”, literally a shave, thin strip of birch on which to write) again our way. Until then speak it to moon, to heath, to hidden men in places remote. Speak to star and perfect every word where naught hear but whose mind blend with mind. In this time shall speak it oft and truly that in far time it be little changed before it came to birch again (can be open written and practiced again).”

Of course, the author of this passage is not speaking of spreading Gullveig’s evil Seidr. Again, this is based upon the erroneous interpretation of what Seidr is. This may have been a corruption in the translation, or proved that this is indeed a modern account. What the author is here calling for is the continued passing of the actual wisdom contained within this text throughout the generations.

One thing that should be addressed before I close is the idea of rebirth in Odinist theology. To be sure, it seems probable that the ancient Teutons believed that all things return after death. If you look at the stories closely you see that, in our weltanschauung, it is considered impossible for just about anything to truly die and be gone forever. Energy changes form, but continues. Gods continue to exist, being reborn instantly. This is why Loki, even after his betrayal, which led to the death of Balder, is confined and not executed- if he were he would have regenerated, just like this female counterpart, Gullveig, who did so three different times. Thor’s goats, Tanngnjost and Tanngrisnir and the boar of Valhalla Saehrimnir are slain, eaten, and are reborn daily. Transformed heroes, the Einherjar, fight and die each day on the playing fields of Asgard, then are reborn to feast in Valhalla each evening. People die, then are reborn in Hel where they face judgement at the Helthing. It is possible that Odin himself experienced death during his famous sojourn on “the windswept tree” mentioned in Havamal.

Both Hodr and Balder perish and Voluspa 61 says that they will dwell in “Hropt’s Hall” when Ragnarök is complete, but all the gods will return to their thrones (strophe 63). Most likely, this is telling us that the two brothers return home to Asgard, where they lived before their deaths, and possibly reorganize the divine world in preparation for the new order to come. I have evaluated many theories on the concept of rebirth in Odinic lore, but the only one which survives critical scrutiny is that everything is reborn and all of the gods shall return after Ragnarök to serve under Balder’s peaceful sceptre, for they cannot die, even though they can experience death. Any other theory fails to resolve myriad contradictions.

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