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On Usoniandeutsch (and Schwäbisch-Amerikanisch) Identity Within Heathenry

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By Sean Jobst “Wo an wohlgebahnten Straßen (Where on well-paved roads) Man in neuer Schenke weilt, (one dwells in a new inn,) Wo dem Fremdling reichermaßen (Where the stranger is richly) Ackerfeld ist zugeteilt, (allocated arable field,) Siedeln wir uns an mit Andern. (We settle with others.) Eilet, eilet, einzuwandern (Hurry, hurry, immigrate) In das neue Vaterland! (to the new fatherland!) ” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Lied der Auswanderer” (Song of the Emigrants), 1794 Illustration associated with Goethe's "Lied der Auswanderer." He would often be inspired to write his poems sitting under an oak tree. The oak tree was revered by ancient Germans, associated with the Thunderer Donar , and with the Celtic Druids, whose name meant "oak-wise". "Landverhuisers" (The Emigrants, 1896) by the  Flemish artist Eugène Laermans (1864-1940) Lately I’ve been thinking more deeply about how Heathenry directly relates to we who live outside our ancestral lands of ...
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Suebi Beer Libations to Wuodan: Accounts from Grimm, Columban, and the Matronae; and Esoteric Musings on Blot

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By Sean Jobst [Last updated 1 July 2026] Sources confirm it was a common Suebi tradition to honor Wuodan (our original name for Him, later evolving into Old High German Wodan and modern German Wotan) with beer libations, so that a modern Swabian Heathen practice could incorporate a  Giozan  (Old High German “to pour” -> Proto-Germanic * Geutana , “to pour") with beer of a high quality befitting to Wuodan, preferably our own South German beers such as made with hops from the Bavarian Hallertau, where Wuodan and other Germanic Deities were honored and so their energies are imbued with the land.  As we were animists like every other ethnic faith, our ancestors knew that through this ritual the drink itself would become imbued with a spiritual energy exchanged with the Deity.  Blotar (Proto-Germanic * Blotana , “to sacrifice”) were specific offerings to the Gods or Goddesses. This included something tangible as part of the gifting and exchange cycle; but ...
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