/asatru/ - Asatru / Heathenry / Paganism

This is a pretty good idea. Sadly, I have no pdfs to contribute.

This board doesn't take epub, the vastly superior format for e-reading, so I too have little to contribute.

>Not having an ereader

It's like you don't even want to lock focus and read for hours on end like books without the eyestrain of doing so on a glowing screen.

>>9734

If you have some good epubs, upload 'em to your Mega account for us to download. I'll make a separate folder for epubs.

There's an article called "The Hammer and the Pentagram" floating around out there that goes into detail of why Asatru and Wicca are fundamentally incompatible. It's a good read.

>>9737

Indeed.

It's in the current collection folder "8chan Asatru PDF collection" in the folder titled "Comparing Asatru to Wicca."

>>9731

New folders and pdfs are up in the collection fams:

"Lady with the Mead Cup" folder - containing a pdf of the book "Lady with the Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tene to the Viking Age." By Michael J. Enright.

"The Maiden with the Mead" folder - containing a pdf of the book: "Maiden with the Mead: A Goddess of Initiation In Norse Mythology?" By Maria Kvilhaug.

"The Runes" folder - containing a pdf of the book: "The Rune Primer: A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Runes." By Sweyn Plowright.

I hope "The Runes" folder will eventually become a repository in general for books on the runes.

Till then, enjoy!

Anyone have "We Are Our Deeds"?

>>9744

I haven't been able to find the pdf or epub or whatnot, but I do own the book, and it's rather short, so when I get some time I can just scan it in and make a pdf of it.

>>9752

I remember this book by Dumezil being pretty damn good when I checked it out from a library:

http://www.amazon.com/Northmen-Comparative-Folklore-Mythology-Publications/dp/0520035070/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1456901517&sr=8-2&keywords=Georges+Dum%C3%A9zil

…and would love to get my hands on a digital copy of this or any of his other works to add to the collection. Alas, no such luck yet.

As for Glob, never heard of him until you mentioned him. Thank your for bringing him up, because not only does his work seem rock solid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Glob

…but it's also on the more affordable side:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Peter+Vilhelm+Glob

So I may just buy it and scan it in.

>>9759

I have pdfs of that one, The Archaic Roman Religion (both volumes), The Destiny of a King, The Destiny of a Warrior, The Plight of a Sorcerer, Camillus: A Study of Indo-European Religion As Roman History and Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Represenations of Sovereignty.

I could start a thread on /pdfs/ and upload them if I have the time. (Have work in the morning)

Not a PDF but this contains some very useful information about Celtiberian customs and traditions, for any friends from Iberia.

https://www4.uwm.edu/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol6/index.html

Also have an actual PDF (or whatever format you want), since it doesn't seem to be here yet:

https://archive.org/details/OnBeingAPagan

>>9759

>>9760

Just realized most of them are too big, here:

Gods of the Ancient Northmen

http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=072c0e291b6ba0a25f98edee15a23475

Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=7A6D11505123BE4E333C0FD3E91A3245

Archaic Roman religion: with an appendix on the religion of the Etruscans

http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=f96b3756c268d2c0570a272bcdbe2da2

Camillus: A Study of Indo-European Religion As Roman History

http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=2bfd83fbac6d8091d492154fd197ded7

Plight of a Sorcerer

http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=18fd1ee461853f9302ea45253c4feafd

The Destiny of the Warrior

http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=2EA20D927457753C793B2FA984A0E923

The stakes of the warrior

http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=9496C277778D533D9291AE5A7C8FF7B1

The Destiny of a King

http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=c198e557f6c582049ab94cfd85b1b467

>>9760

>>9763

>>9764

>>9769

Frickin' awesome. Thank you for these. I will have these up in the collection by this weekend as soon as I get time.

>>9759

http://www.amazon.com/P.-V-Glob/e/B000APTCQ8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1457045012&sr=8-1

Shout out, once again, to the following posters for the new folders and pdfs up in the collection:

>>9760

>>9763

>>9764

>>9769

Here is the new content:

All volumes and book reviews of e-Keltoi, referenced by >>9763 are in the folder - "e-Keltoi Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies" (Note: Vol 3 has not been completed by the organization, so is not present yet.)

Alain de Benoist's "On Being a Pagan", posted by >>9764 is in the folder - "On Being a Pagan by Alain de Benoist."

All books by Georges Dumezil, posted by >>9769 are now in the folder - "Books by Georges Dumezil."

Enjoy!

>>9773

Thanks for this link. Much clearer than the link I posted and gives me more to work with.

>>9837

Thanks for finding this.

>>9839

There's some stinkers, but also a lot of good ones. I'll sort through when I get time.

RIP 4 lyfe, Bolwerk.

>>9837

Actually, if you look at the "links" there anything that isn't wiccan trash is actually from heathengods*com/library/ anyway. All the "sex magixckek by willowsong ravenflower" is exclusive to that place.

>>9860

ps: Upon review the heathengods library is the actual fucking goldmine. It even has more text than are just in the library linked on the mainpage and their library itself is much more than the "othrierur kindred" people chose to direct-link on their page.

Delicious reading for weeks.

>>9860

>RIP 4 lyfe, Bolwerk

Lol, I'm still here, tried to get up with you on Friday. Will try again earlier in the day this Friday.

>>9861

Well, if all the good parts are only from the Temple of Our Heathen Gods Library, that saves me a lot of time, because I already got all that stuff and then some up on the Mega archive. Sweet.

>>9863

There are a few conspicuous things missing like the contents of

http://www.heathengods*com/bookstore/index.htm

and some of the other front-page links, like several translations of things. They have some in the library, but then others on the main page and not present in the library (like several more translations of the havamal in the havamal translations page, than are in the library or the mega). You might not have gotten around to adding them to the mega though, so I might be wrong. I'm just comparing the site to the mega.

>>9874

I took care of all of that already. I even found (or made) pdfs of links that only lead to HTML pages.

I changed and reorganized the folder structure to make things a bit neater and more efficient.

For example, all the stuff under "Additional Books in order by Author" are organized into various folders in the Mega (there's a folder for all of the books in that section that are about Vinland called "Books on Viking Age Vinland" for example.)

As for the bookstore page, Heathen Tribes, Heathen Families, and Heathen Gods are in the folder "Books by Mark Stinson." Both volumes of The Culture of the Teutons are in the folder "The Culture of the Teutons." For all of the sagas in both volumes of Saga Hoard, go to the folder "Sagas and fiction based on the Sagas" and then go to the folder "Main Sagas." The Nine Books of the Danish History by Saxo Grammaticus are in the folder "Historical Sources" (Two versions)

See near the end of this thread to see some of the other updates I did to the archive:

>>9524

>>9883

Very nice indeed. If you need certain books bought to add to the collection let me know. I've been looking at some of the rarer books listed in reading lists and wondered if we shouldn't track them down and make manual copies of them, making sure to take high quality photography of any artwork. I'm not sure older books or rarer books could survive having their binders pressed flat for a good scan. I personally wanna get my hands on volumes of TYR but the price for some back issues can be a hundred dollars.

How come you can only tox once a week but can reply to /asatru/ threads all day? :^) There's tox apps for iOS and android y'know.

>>9885

Will definitely let you know. Issues 2-4 for Tyr seem possibly feasible in the future:

http://www.amazon.com/Joshua-Buckley/e/B00RI1D6WS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1458245610&sr=1-1

But Vol 1, sheesh, you weren't kidding:

http://www.amazon.com/TYR-Myth-Culture-Tradition-Vol/dp/0972029206/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458245610&sr=1-5&keywords=tyr

Also, unfortunately, I do not have a smartphone, I literally have dumbphone (i.e. old-school simple flip phone) for financial reasons.

With my tight schedule right now (currently working on polishing up portfolio for submission at the end of April) doing a post or two on /asatru/ ain't a big deal. I can just type a post in about 5 minutes or less, and then be done with it. But an online conversation demands more time and attention. I can enjoy it so much I can easily lose track of time and before I know it, 3 or 4 hours have gone by, so I gotta be a bit more tight about that.

>>9895

>Vol1

I almost have to wonder if we could write the producers directly to make a kindle version to break the bottleneck of the information. I've also found a really high quality reading list of roman paganism but the books there are of academic grade and as such start at around the 50usd mark (and due to academic jewry even kindle versions must be rented for 30usd or bought at the same 50usd)…

I've hit a bit of a roadblock on slavic material in english so I've been branching out a bit. I only can read cyrillic the script but beyond that my vocabulary in actual slavic languages is less than 300 words…

>I can enjoy it so much I can easily lose track of time and before I know it, 3 or 4 hours have gone by, so I gotta be a bit more tight about that.

Perhaps I am just that conversational :^)

>>9896

Here's TYR Vol. 1, if you don't have it yet.

https://mega.nz/#!Z5Qlma7D!022T1hV1YydFg5Q6skq7jwyzH9trbMD8Mjzxq1KWthU

If you post the roman reading list I can try to find some stuff too.

>>9901

Question: What do you and Amadeus Mozart have in common?

Answer: You both Rock Me.

Thanks to you, magnificent gentleman, Tyr Vol 1 is now up in the folder "Tyr Journal."

>>9908

Here's what I found so far, including some extras that seemed interesting and/or related.

https://mega.nz/#F!U5hRFILL!cWi_1HxYaMwoECvuTmCtMA

This is all from libgen actually, including TYR. I have access to a couple of the ones that I haven't found online through my university, but they're in a campus that is like 2 hours away from me.

I can also download and share research papers, essays and stuff like that if they're behind a paywall.

I think I also have some more books in my main computer that I can share, I'll check tomorrow.

>>9908

>>9914

>>9922

Awesome work you two.

The PDF archive is now subdivided into three folders:

"Germanic - Scandinavian - Anglo-Saxon Heathenry"

"Celtic Heathenry"

"Greco-Roman Heathenry"

All the Greco-Roman texts are uploaded to said folder now. I'll subdivide it into more as the that section grows.

Right now the "Celtic Heathenry" folder just has the e-Keltoi academic journal collection, but hopefully that folder will grow as well.

The vast bulk of everything is the Germanic section right now.

Thanks again for all your help.

>>9922

>libgen

How about that, I thought that place disappeared after ((Elsevier)) "shut it down". Just snagged the new mirror domain now.

>>9944 (doubledubs)

He lives! I can tell you from what I'm looking at here you will want to split greece and rome, my roman list when done will rival what we already have in the asatru section, I could compile a greek list just as large if not larger.

>>9968

>is not the hallmark of pre-christianity that state, race, religion, culture and so on are all one in the same?

Precisely.

>Perhaps starting with the most written about and well recorded (Rome) was a bit… bold.

We gotta do it sometime. Don't think of it in terms of "as quickly as possible." Another hallmark of Classical civilization is thinking in the long term. Paintings that take months or even a year or two to complete. Architecture that is finished in the span of decades. Trees planted in whose shade you will never lie. Or to put it in the most obvious, cliche' and relevant manner possible: "Rome wasn't built in a day."

We break it down little by little into bite sized chunks. We take breaks if we get sick of it, and come back. If Rome's corpus is that gargantuan, multiple people rather than one would be best for sorting through it, and so on and so on.

Or perhaps even starting with a culture with a smaller corpus and gradually picking off Rome on the side might even be a better long term strategy.

Let me now what you need.

>>9745

This please.

>>10008

I bought a few titles by Dmitry Kushnir from amazon for a few bucks on a whim due to the lack of english material… But I can't tell if they're basically fanfiction or not as the reading to be done on the matter in any language I can read is so sparse.

I'm in a negative feedback loop of not knowing anything so everything seems suspect so I don't know anything.

Just recently stumbled upon a treasure trove of rare pdfs, and taking my time downloading and sorting through them to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Till then, I've gone ahead and uploaded some of the more exciting no-brainers for y'all to enjoy:

All of these are In the "Germanic-Scandinavian-Anglo-Saxon Heathenry" subfolder:

Folder - Books by Varg Vikernes -

Contents - Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia by Varg Vikernes

Folder - Way of the Heathen

Contents - Way of the Heathen by Garman Lord

Folder - Elves, Wights and Trolls

Contents - Elves, Wights and Trolls: Studies Toward the Practice of Germanic Heathenry Vol 1 by Kveldulf Gundarsson

Folder - Germanic Heathenry A Practical Guide

Contents - Germanic Heathenry: A Practical Guide by James Hjuka Coulter

Folder- Roles of the Northern Goddess

Contents - Roles of the Northern Goddess by H.R. Ellis Davidson

Folder - The Well and the Tree

Contents - The Well and the Tree by Paul Bauschatz

And finally, thanks to this wonderful poster >>10012 Summoning the Gods by Collin Cleary is now in the folder "Summoning the Gods."

There's quite a bit more for me to download and sort through, so it's going to take me awhile to sort and organize everything, so stay tuned for more!

>>10008

Thank you for these. As >>10012 said, we have been hitting a bit of speed bump in terms of Slavic material, so these are a godssend. I'm a bit burned out right now, and am going to be fairly busy during the week, but I'll get to work converting these to pdfs or finding pdfs/epubs/etc. as soon as a can. No later than this weekend.

>>10008

>>10008

>>9996

Currently still in the process of scanning it in, so don't worry, it's coming!