 The odal or othala rune Odalism (from the Proto-Germanic word ôþalan which roughly means 'heritage,') is a Teutonic Folkish movement based on pride in one's own ancient cultural and religious traditions, rather than adopting those of outside cultures. The boundary of cultural practice is conceived as residing within racial or ethnic lineages, representative of family branches. Following such culture as latently one's own, as it is founded upon atavisms of one's own inherited traits, excluding cultural inceptions originating presumably from different human ancestries for the reasons of it not belonging to ones own human archetype; the archetype which presupposes the structure of the individuality in the person. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Map of the Pre-Roman Iron Age culture(s) associated with Proto-Germanic, ca 500 BC-50 BC. The area south of Scandinavia is the Jastorf culture Proto-Germanic, the proto-language believed by scholars to be the common ancestor of the Germanic languages, includes among its descendants Dutch, Yiddish...
A tradition is a story or a custom that is memorized and passed down from generation to generation, originally without the need for a writing system. ...
The term Germanic peoples may refer to: the Germanic tribes that in the first millennium were seen as a barbarian threat by the Roman Empire and its successors; the Germanic Christianity that in the second millennium came to dominate much of Northern Europe, politically organized in the Holy Roman Empire...
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Its symbol is the Odal rune (sometimes called othala). Although the word and movement (because of its etymology) are used only by people with Germanic ancestry who profess such an outlook, they specifically can contain elements of Ásatrú, certain other European-based philosophical ideas, or even Christian extra-denominational ideas divorced from their Biblical roots (as long as the parts in question belong to the same identity as one's heritage). The Odal rune. ...
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Ãsatrú (Icelandic Æsir faith) is a new religious movement which is attempting to revive the Norse paganism of the Viking Age - as described in the Eddas - prior to the arrival of Christianity. ...
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Philosophy (from the Greek words philos and sophia meaning love of wisdom) is understood in different ways historically and by different philosophers. ...
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A religious denomination, (also simply denomination) is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition, and identity. ...
The Bible (From Greek βιβλια—biblia, meaning books, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported papyrus) is the sacred scripture of Christianity. ...
Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture. ...
Philosophy Odalists consider all things that are unique to Germanic spheres of influence to be contributors to a greater definition of identity. In identity, an increasing sense of autonomy through specific as well as general identity (identity at all levels), can be seen how all people regard spirituality. Odalists believe that everyone forms their spirituality from their own terms, whether they believe in the universality of spiritual truths to all peoples of whatever background or not. For that reason, taking the terminology of spiritual ideas and the ideas themselves from culturally relevant historically understood sources is seen to allow 'the self', as ancestry is seen as the history of oneself, a more precise regard for spiritual ideas, all of which because there is a greater sense of identity. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ...
See also: universalism; Self-organization, Complexity General study of systems Universality is a meta-theory arguing that ostensibly discrete systems are part of a larger complex system that extends across several scales (spatially and temporally), and emerges in patterns during criticality. ...
Terminology, in its general sense, simply refers to the usage and study of terms, that is to say words and compound words generally used in specific contexts. ...
Odalists see all things coming from somewhere specific, whether the thoughts that those things yield (morals, examples, beliefs) profess universalism or not (compare relativism). That such uniqueness can be universal to everything different is then thought to give a wider range for spiritual concepts to be regarded on a whole, and so does more honour to the aesthetic of religious methodology for everyone regardless of heritage. It is like a mutually exclusive differentialism, but because it is heritage-based, followers consider it to be progressive, by developing new concepts and not being bound only to the tradition of ancient ways, as long as the concepts are novel and not borrowed, each & every culture develops in diverse yet unique & exclusive ways. This series of self-innovations is thought to help give the world more variation, conveniently allowing a simultaneous ideologic context for social darwinism by means of selective retention. Odalism, because of its rejection of logic or theoretical discoveries from different cultures, can certainly be seen even as a cognizant 'creative limitation' to one's view of reality, as it seeks out its own tangible & philosophical answers rather than accepting others within contexts not from their greater family of heritages & culture. See also meta-ethics. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Universality (philosophy). ...
Compare Moral relativism, Aesthetic relativism and Cultural relativism. ...
Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. ...
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In logic, two mutually exclusive (or mutual exclusive according to some sources) propositions are propositions that logically cannot both be true. ...
Progressivism is a term that refers to a broad school of contemporary international social and political philosophies. ...
The word tradition, comes from the Latin word traditio which means to hand down or to hand over. ...
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Creative limitation is the practice of purposely limiting oneself to the ends of achieving a novel effect or goal that is not otherwise possible using conventional, readily accessible, methods. ...
In philosophy, meta-ethics is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties (if there are any), and ethical statements, attitudes, and judgments. ...
Groups & Organizations Heathen Front(now defunct) The Allgermanische Heidnische Front (AHF) is a folkish heathen organization, promoting a philosophy called Odalism. ...
See also Neopaganism or Neo-Paganism is any of a heterogeneous group of new religious movements, particularly those influenced by ancient, primarily pre-Christian and sometimes pre-Judaic religions. ...
Reconstructions of the traditions of Germanic paganism began with 19th century Romanticism. ...
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