Woden's Folk is a heathen group based in England in the United Kingdom. The aim of Woden's Folk is to create a new folkish religion for the English, rooted in the worship of the old gods of England and the television series Robin of Sherwood. Its main symbols are the white dragon and the swastika, and it has been condemned as a racist group by Hope not Hate.
Woden's Folk was founded on 23 April 1998 by somebody calling himself "Wulf Ingessunu", who claims to have experienced a series of mystical experiences centred around the appearance of the Hale Bopp comet in 1997.
The immediate aim of the group is to prepare the way for the manifestation of the English Avatar, HelgiH, which it believes to be a specific form of the god Kalki. This avatar is also described as The Hooded Man (a term lifted from Robin of Sherwood), and is seen as an incarnation of Woden.
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Famous quotes containing the words woden and/or folk:
“There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.
There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)
“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have “really happened,” or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)