Wotanism

Wotanism is the name of a Germanic Neopagan religion or socio-political current partly based on the ideas of David Lane. Wotan is the German name for the Germanic god known in Norse as Odin. Lane's Wotanism is related to European Odinism.

Based on the essay entitled Wotan by Carl Jung, the term Wotanism in modern times heavily emphasizes superiority and approves of National Socialism (NS). Lane chose the term "Wotanism" because WOTAN can be used as an acronym for Will Of The Aryan Nation and because the term has been used more than Odin in Europe. Unlike other Heathens, most Wotanists emphasize dualism and view the Gods as Jungian archetypes. Wotanists consider the Havamal to be their holiest text.

Wotanists are collectively known as WotansVolk and the group Temple of Wotan was founded under the direct influence of David Lane, by his wife Katja Lane (Katuscha Maddox) and Ron McVan, a former high-ranking member of the World Church of the Creator. The Temple of Wotan organization was inspired by the book Temple of Wotan. Gallows Tree Wotansvolk is a kindred of Wotanists located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Sons Of Wotan Kindred is another large-scale Wotansvolk kindred that originated in Covington Kentucky and now has reached Riverside, California, Roklide, Denmark, And Cape Town, South Africa.

Many Wotanists believe in polygamy. Late in his life, Lane authored a short story entitled KD Rebel, a fictional account of a colony of Wotanists who live up in the mountains and kidnap "way-ward" white girls and women from urban areas that are in danger of racial mixing and try to force them into polygamy to further the white race.

The introduction for KD Rebel reads:

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The time is early in the 21st century, within the borders of the former United States. Generations of "dark is handsome" propaganda, unceasing promotion of inter-racial mating, open borders, anti-White programs, combined with unending demonization of the "evil White male", has accomplished its intended effect. Less than one percent of earth's population were White women of child-bearing age or younger, and not mated with non-Whites.

For many decades, America had denied the White race its own nations, schools, organizations, and everything necessary for racial survival, while at the same time race-mixing was promoted and enforced with fanatic fervor. Passage of the "Harmony Laws", giving large cash grants to all inter-racial couples involving a White woman were the last straw for many disenfranchised White males. Several thousand of them, mostly young, migrated to the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

At the time of the events chronicled here, these rebels had established tenuous control over portions of Western Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. They call this "Kinsland", and they use the initials KD as a short appellation for a guerrilla army of Kinsland Defenders. Futilely they had pleaded with the dwindling number of young White women to join them, but with only a few exceptions their anguished pleas were scornfully rejected with the System's mindless buzzwords, like racist, sexist and bigot. So, since the first two prerequisites for the survival of a race are territory and breeding stock, history repeated itself.

Over twelve hundred years earlier, some Aryan folk migrated to Scandinavia to escape the race-denying, universalist, alien tyrannical religion from Rome and Judea. Only thus could they keep their race alive. From Scandinavia they went "a-viking", raiding occupied Europe for mates and for the necessities of life. Kinslanders of the 21st century followed the example of heroic ancestors.

Most Kinslanders are Wotanists (Odinists), whose speech reflect the indigenous religion of the White race. With words like Midgard (earth), Valhalla (hall of heroes), Norns (goddesses of fate), Sons of Muspell (the racial-religious tribe that rules the world and sentenced the White race to death), and Skraelings (non-Whites). This account relates a period in the life of some Kinsland folk.

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