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Walpurgisnacht – Part 3: Runic Astrotheology, Meditations on Ancestral Memory, and the Germanic Mother Goddess

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  By Sean Jobst 21 May 2026 Illustration of the Mother Goddess Frija, by the German artist Carl Emil Doepler (1882) In Part 2 I compared etymology between the “saint” Walpurga and ancient seeresses, and decoded word-play alluding to various Germanic Goddesses. The magic inherent within these words manifest multiple layers of meaning – on the exoteric, denotations of sovereignty or geographical concepts; on the esoteric level, meanings related to magical processes and the otherworld. I also cited direct correspondences to qualities attributed in lore to the Mother Goddess known in Old High German as Frija. Readers accustomed to Norse lore might be confused by how I seemed to mention Frigg and Freya interchangeably. Generally, in continental Germanic traditions she is one and the same Goddess, whose name combines terms denoting “lady”, “beloved”, “beautiful,” “free” and “courtship” since she epitomizes the feminine in its various qualities: “We gather from all this, that the forms a...
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Walpurgisnacht - Part 2: Decoding the Secrets Hidden in Etymology and Hagiography

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  by Sean Jobst  29 April 2026 The most well-known image of Walburga was made by the Master of Meßkirch around 1535 nearly 800 years after her death Walpurgisnacht’s namesake was the Benedictine nun Walpurga, who proselytized to Germanic Heathens in northern Bavaria in the 8th century. Stories of her “miracles” were such that she was canonized a hundred years after her death. I intend to show that when we decode the secrets hidden in etymology and mythic symbolisms within her hagiography, and draw correspondences to known Heathen traditions – that Walpurga as the “saint” (not as the actual historical person), was a Christianized archetype created by the Church/State authorities to co-opt and ultimately replace veneration of various Germanic Goddesses; and to demonize liberatory magical practices (as opposed to their own dark bind-magic of archonic control).(1) She was born in 710CE into an aristocratic Anglo-Saxon family of saints in Devonshire - her parents were Richard the...
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