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Old 09-03-2008, 02:17 PM
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Default Isn't the norse religion (Thor, Odin, etc) correctly termed Asatru?

Isn't the norse religion (Thor, Odin, etc) correctly termed Asatru?
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Old 09-08-2008, 02:17 PM
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Yes. It can also be called Heathenry or Odinism. The denomination of Norse religion followed by that NYC politician Halloran is Theodism.
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Old 09-09-2008, 02:17 PM
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Asatru is one form/term of the indigenous religion of Northern Europe.

Forn Sed, Heathenry, Forn Si?r, Odinism, Theodism and Germanic (Neo)paganism are other terms.
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Old 09-11-2008, 02:17 PM
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?satr? is indeed, based upon the surviving historical records of the religion of the Norse people. Along with other branches of the Pagan tradition, it was once widespread ac cross the whole of northern Europe. As each country gradually converted to Christianity (for mainly economic reasons), the older ways began to die out. They still remain in small pockets ac cross the world and a vast wealth of information can be found on the Internet and within groups of like-minded folk who regularly meet at both formal and informal gatherings from time to time.
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Old 09-14-2008, 02:17 PM
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* As others have said, it can be called Asatru, Heathenism, and Vor Tru

Theodism is Anglo-Saxon Heathenry

Germanic paganism, Teutonic paganism, Germanic re constructionist paganism - not many Heathens/Asatruar use those.

No Heathen uses the term "WiccaTru" - a mixing of Wicca with Heathenism (which really aren't mixable)
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Old 09-16-2008, 02:17 PM
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NO, it isn't!

Asatru is just ONE of the Heathen beliefs whose believers hon our Norse or Germanic gods like Odin and Thor.
Asatru is a religion which formed simultaneously in Iceland and America, Started by two individuals; Stephen McNallen in USA and Sweinbjorn Beintensson in Iceland. Asatru has pretty structured rituals, borrowed from Wicca and ritual magic and it incorporates many practices that were never part of the historic Heathenry. On the other hand, Asatru practitioners don't practice magic at all - magic is an essential component of original Heathen world-view.

All Asatru are "Norse Heathen polytheists", but not all "Norse Heathen polytheists" are Asatru.
I am a Norse Heathern polytheist, but I'm not Asatru.
Apart from Asatru, you have eclectic Norse Heathens, Heathen reconstructionists, Forn Sed, Norse shamans etc.

Other paths of Heathenry include Irminism (Germanic Heathenry), Odinism, Theodism - Anglo-Saxon Heathenry etc, North Italian (Lombard) Heathenry, etc...

Asatru is just one of them.
Asatru IS NOT a correct reconstruction of the original Norse polytheist belief, it's a belief made anew on the basis of the original Norse polytheism. It incorporates many new and foreign elements.
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