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June 13th, 2017 
Awake Goy How many of us today put strangers ahead of family? How many are ‘part-time’ Wotanists – if there is such a thing? – and only reflecting our beliefs, morals and such when around other Wotanists? How many of us are spending more time in Utangard than they do in Innangard?
Before anybody can give an honest answer, he must, they must understand what in ancient days was meant by the two terms. Our very early ancestors were decidedly ‘isolationists’; their tribes or clans were their whole life, the only real world that mattered to them. Outside their protected territories was Utangard, the realm of the unknown, dangerous, scary and generally conceived as a bad place where all kinds of fearful things were possible. Within the tribal grounds was Innangard – from ancient times the home of the tribe, a known place and therefore loved, protected and secure.
Outsiders were shown hospitality, the hallmark of all Germanic peoples, but it only went so far. Outsiders were seldom allowed to stay and usually never accepted as marriage partners for the young girls. The strangers weren’t privy to the inner trappings of the tribal cult, the history or the ancient customs. Such things were only possible once the outsider had proven himself and been initiated into the tribe.
This ‘isolationism’ allowed Folk Traditions, Customs and religious beliefs to stay uncontaminated by foreign influences for thousands of years, until monotheism and still later, its ugly sibling Universalism, came to the homelands.
A long time that fight lasted, and it is still going on within our related tribes as well as in other areas. Now out of Vinland 2000 C.E. we’re dealing with the taint of the One-God religions, but even more worrisome has become renewed efforts of so-called Globalization. No longer does our Folk have power over the tribal Innangard with its security and comfort; instead we find ourselves lost in Utangard, searching, always searching, but no longer finding what we’re searching for.
Some of us have again formed kindreds, hearths or communities within which we work to that effect. The Way – the ancient code of our ancestors, in an effort to rebuild our lost Innangard, a great and much needed task. But how many have allowed strangers into our security? How many are today wearing the Hammer and knowing the significance it carries And even more importantly, how many more are innocently wearing the Hammer for reasons that are not tribally linked to our Folk Ways? Too many I’m afraid.
Our Way is not easy, nor does it claim to be; and we must be patient with those who are seriously trying – after all, we’re all humans? – Right! To this I say yes and no; certainly we all make mistakes and bad decisions. Even the Gods – who gave Loki many chances, but eventually had to throw him out of Innangard.
One important thing to remember – today our Innangard holds the seeds of the future, of Our Way; how much ‘bad seeds’ can we absorb? We know the problems of trying to follow the ancient code, and we must be tolerant of those who are making earnest efforts, but how far can we go? Maybe looking back on our own efforts to change our attitudes will give us the best answer.
From Elsie Christensen’s “The Odinist” periodical, 2001, issue #152
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