Swabian Pride

by Sean Jobst 25 September 2018 "They celebrate in ancient songs, which is the only mode of memory and of annals that they have, how the god Tuisto was born from the earth. To him they ascribe a son Mannus [man], the originator and founder of their nation, and to Mannus three sons from whose name those next to the Ocean [sea] are called Ingaevones, those in the middle Herminones, and the others Istaevones. Certain of them, using the license that goes with antiquity, allege that more eponyms of the nation were born of the god - Marsi, Gambrivii, Suebi, and Vandilii - and that these are genuine ancient names." (Tacitus, Germania , 2.2-3) From this astounding passage, we can make several important observations. Even by the time the Roman Tacitus wrote these words in 98CE, our Germanic ancestors had a very ancient tribal lore that was transmitted orally through songs and memory, and this contrasted with the written annals of Rome. Tacitus regards the Germanic peoples as tru...

by Sean Jobst 4 September 2018 For the past year, I have been researching and following Germanic Paganism. It came after a spiritual and ethnic awakening (a long process that increased with time rather than a single event) that I'll speak about elsewhere in detail. But one thing I've noticed is that the Germanic Pagan groups and movements out there tend to focus more on the Scandinavian or the Anglo-Saxon, which is understandable since the most records have survived about those cultures. We should recognize our common Germanic lineage, from the most northern fjords to the most southern mountains and even the Mediterranean coasts. We all had a common Pagan understanding, with the same deities and worldview, the same archetypes and noble-heroic ethos. But there were slight variations in traditions between tribes and across times. And what has survived of Continental Germanic and Alpine paganism is far more fragmentary than holistic, which fortunately our brethren to the No...