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The Odinic Rite (OR) is a Germanic pagan reconstructivist society whose aims are to promote all aspects of Germanic paganism, termed Odinism after the chief god of Norse mythology, Odin. Reconstructions of the traditions of Germanic paganism began with 19th century Romanticism. ...
Germanic paganism refers to the religion and mythology of the Germanic nations preceding Christianization, including Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythologies, and remnants of pre-Christian beliefs in the folklore of medieval and modern Germanic peoples. ...
Norse or Scandinavian mythology refers to the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ...
Odin is considered to be the supreme god of late Germanic and Norse mythology. ...
Influenced by Else Christensen's Odinist Fellowship, The Odinic Rite was founded in 1973 in England under the name "Committee for the Restoration of the Odinic Rite / Odinist Committee". In 1980 the organisation changed its name to "The Odinic Rite" after it was believed that it had gained enough significant interest in the restoration of the Odinic faith. Else Christensen also known as the Folkmother (1913–4th May 2005) was an influential figure in Odinic Rite Neo-Paganism. ...
The Odinist Fellowship was an early Germanic Pagan Reconstructivist organization, founded by Else Christensen in 1969, in Canada. ...
1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ...
1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
The OR has chapters in France (ORF), Germany (ORD, 1995) [1], Australia (1995), [2] and North America (ORV, 1997) and individual members spread over many other countries. It has legal status in the United Kingdom, Australia and various states in the United States.
The basic unit of the Odinic Rite is the "Hearth", a group of adherents who gather to perform ceremonies known as Blóts or Blotar, at which they honor their deities and their ancestors. However, a large proportion of the members are lone practitioners. The motto or watch-words of the Odinic Rite are "Faith, Folk & Family". Odinic Rite is a folkish Asatru society. The main OR website as well as the website of the German chapter has a disclaimer to the effect that they are unpolitical. In common historic and modern usage, a hearth is a brick- or stone-lined fireplace or oven used for cooking and/or heating. ...
The Blót was the pagan Germanic sacrifice to Norse gods and Elves. ...
A deity or a god, is a postulated preternatural being, usually, but not always, of significant power, worshipped, thought holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, or respected by human beings. ...
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"Professed members" have sworn an oath of fealty to the gods and to the Odinic Rite society. They receive a "torc", a small crescent-shaped shield said to derive from a historical British military decoration (not to be confused with the Celtic "torque"). A torc, also spelled torque (from Latin torqueo, to twist, because of the twisted shape of the collar) is a rigid circular necklace that is open-ended at the front. ...
Members of the Odinic Rite are encouraged to live their lives according to the "Nine Noble Virtues" and the "Nine Charges" which are detailed below.
Nine Noble Virtues The Nine Noble Virtues are the ethical code gleaned from various sources including the Poetic Edda (particularly the Hávamál), the Icelandic Sagas and Germanic folklore they were codified by the Odinic Rite in the 1970's. The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. ...
Hávamál (The Words of the High One), (known also as The Sayings of Har, or the High Song of Odin), a work of Old Norse poetry, is a source document for the study of Norse mythology, being a set of rules for wise living (and survival) purportedly written...
The Norse sagas or Viking sagas (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur), are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, about early Viking voyages, about migration to Iceland, and of feuds between Icelandic families. ...
Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions current among a particular population, a part of the oral history of a particular culture. ...
The virtues are:
- Courage
- Truth
- Honour
- Fidelity
- Discipline
- Hospitality
- Self Reliance
- Industriousness
- Perseverance
Nine Charges The Nine Charges are, like the Nine Noble Virtues, codified by the Odinic Rite in the 1970's.
The charges are:
- To maintain candour and fidelity in love and devotion to the tried friend: though he strike me I will do him no scathe.
- Never to make wrongsome oath: for great and grim is the reward for the breaking of plighted troth.
- To deal not hardly with the humble and the lowly.
- To remember the respect that is due to great age.
- To suffer no evil to go unremedied and to fight against the enemies of Faith, Folk and Family: my foes I will fight in the field, nor will I stay to be burnt in my house.
- To succour the friendless but to put no faith in the pledged word of a stranger people.
- If I hear the fool's word of a drunken man I will strive not: for many a grief and the very death groweth from out such things.
- To give kind heed to dead men: straw dead, sea dead or sword dead.
- To abide by the enactments of lawful authority and to bear with courage the decrees of the Norns.
See also Reconstructions of the traditions of Germanic paganism began with 19th century Romanticism. ...
Neopaganism (sometimes Neo-Paganism) describes a heterogeneous group of new religious movements which attempt to revive ancient, mainly pre-Christian and often pre-Judaic Indo-European religions. ...
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