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    The Odin Brotherhood
    The Odin Brotherhood
    The Odin Brotherhood
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    The Odin Brotherhood

    By Mark Mirabello

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    Paganism is a growing force, and I believe a disinterested
    observer should record and publish some of the material
    available on the Odin Brotherhood, a mysterious fraternity that
    is one of the most interesting manifestations of Odinist polytheism.
    Because my aim is preservation rather than criticism, I have
    simply detailed the Brotherhood’s beliefs and have made no
    attempt to scrutinize their “mysteries.” At times the ideas
    relayed to me were unusual in the extreme—doctrines that deify
    men and humanize gods, legends of magic gates that lead to
    divine enclaves, prophecies of wars with apocalyptic monsters,
    clues concerning a treasure trove of golden monoliths, and much
    more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 3, 2014
    ISBN9781483542676
    The Odin Brotherhood
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    Mark Mirabello

    Mark Mirabello, Ph.D., is a professor of history at Shawnee State University in Ohio and a former visiting professor of history at Nizhny Novgorod University in Russia. He has appeared on Ancient Aliens and America’s Book of Secrets on the History Channel as well as in the documentary The Kingdom of Survival. He is the author of The Odin Brotherhood, Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws, and the Pulitzer-nominated novella The Cannibal Within. He received his master’s from the University of Virginia and his doctorate from the University of Glasgow. He lives in Portsmouth, Ohio.

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      The Odin Brotherhood - Mark Mirabello

      The Odin Brotherhood

      By Mark Mirabello

      New Edition Copyright 2014 The Odin Brotherhood.

      Odinism and the Mysteries of the Past

      AUTHOR: What is Odinism?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Odinism is an ancient religion that acknowledges the gods by fostering thought, courage,

      honor, light, and beauty. Older than history, Odinism is all that

      was called wisdom when the world was new and fresh.

      AUTHOR: And what is the Odin Brotherhood?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: The Odin Brotherhood is a

      secret society for all extraordinary mortals who embrace the

      principles of Odinism.

      AUTHOR: Extraordinary mortals?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Men and women who possess

      an epic state of mind.

      AUTHOR: When was the Brotherhood established?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Although Odinism is the

      primordial religion, the Brotherhood itself is only five centuries

      old. It was established during the time of our humiliations.

      AUTHOR: The time of your humiliations?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: The era when Odinism was

      the victim of premeditated cruelties. During this dark period,

      our people were murdered, our temples were annihilated, and

      our altars were profaned.

      AUTHOR: And who persecuted the Odinists?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Men and women who were

      black with hate. They called themselves the vassals of Christ,

      but they were liars.

      AUTHOR: And was the use of force effective? Did Odinists

      betray and abandon their old gods?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: In the end, the Christian

      terrorism made Odinism stronger.

      AUTHOR: Stronger? In what way?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Purified by violence, Odinism

      became a religion for the highest form of heroes. From those

      heroes—the young, the strong, the living—the Odin Brotherhood

      was born.

      AUTHOR: Tell me more about the Brotherhood’s origins. In

      precise terms, how was the movement initiated?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: The Odin Brotherhood was

      inaugurated in an obscure village built out of gray mud and

      brown thatch.

      AUTHOR: What was the name of the village?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: There are certain facts I must

      conceal. In the legends, however, the place is called "The-

      Heart-of-the-White-Darkness."

      AUTHOR: And what occurred in this mysterious village?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: The process that would initiate

      the Brotherhood started in 1418 when an ugly and venomous

      Christian priest arranged the execution of a young widow.

      AUTHOR: What was the widow’s name?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: That also must be hidden. In

      the legends, however, she is called "The-Shrouded-One-of-

      Odin."

      AUTHOR: And why was the woman executed?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: The priest, a man infamous

      for his bigotry, had seen the young widow honoring the old gods

      in a remote grotto.

      AUTHOR: And honoring the old gods was a capital offense?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: That is correct. In the twisted

      words of the fiendish nonsense that was then called law, death

      was the punishment for "murmuring heathenish incantations and

      performing pagan rites."

      AUTHOR: So the woman’s fate was sealed?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Yes. The priest did offer to

      spare her life if she submitted to his carnal lusts, but the young

      widow scorned his obscene suggestion.

      AUTHOR: And did the priest murder her with his own hands?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: No. With eloquent

      vehemence, the priest inflamed a mob of peasants in the village,

      and they slaughtered the young widow. In the legends, the mob

      is called The-Hundred-Soulless-Authorities.

      AUTHOR: And how was the woman killed?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: First they cut her beautiful

      eyes from her head. Then, with red-hot pincers, they ripped her

      tongue from her mouth. Finally, they burned her quivering body

      on a pyre constructed from green wood.

      AUTHOR: Why was green wood used?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: It burns slowly and prolongs

      the agony of the victim.

      AUTHOR: The widow’s immolation must have been a ghastly

      spectacle.

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Yes. And her three young

      children, a boy the legends call Mocking-Defiance, a girl who

      is known as The-Power-of-Innocence, and another boy who

      is called Desire-to-Rebel, were forced to watch.

      AUTHOR: Was that the priest’s idea?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Yes. And as the children

      witnessed their mother’s sufferings, they were goaded by the

      priest and his diseased imagination. These were his words:

      Hear the hideous bellowing of the harlot who gave

      you birth? Soon—very soon—she will be groaning in

      the deepest pit of hell with her counterfeit gods. If

      you do not become children of the one true church—

      if you do not learn to kneel, believe, and obey—the

      devil will one day make you share her pain and her

      grief.

      AUTHOR: And what did the children do?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Of course, they were not

      afraid of supernatural terrors.

      AUTHOR: Supernatural terrors?

      THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: They did not fear a fictional

      hell, a scarecrow called the devil, or the other spurious horrors

      contrived by extinct theologians.

      AUTHOR: And why were they not

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