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Old 12-21-2009, 01:27 PM
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Default Differences between Asatru practices and original Germanic Pagan practices?

Like the question says. Could someone help point out some differences between current Asatru practices (doesn't matter where) and the original, Germanic pagan practices in Scandinavia?
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Old 12-22-2009, 01:27 PM
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answer: you have Germanic paganism (that usually doesn't mind mixing a bit of Wicca-inspired practices into the religion)

You have Asatru - based on the Icelandic practices of ancient Heathens

Theodism - Anglo-Saxon paganism

http://englishheathenism.homestead.com/pagangods.html

http://www.asatru-u.org/beginner/asau-beginner-outline.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~jordsvin/index.htm
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Old 12-23-2009, 01:27 PM
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Lots in fact. Asatru is a reconstruction, it has a strict set of rules, hierarchy, prescribed rituals, it avoids doing any magic, it incorporates a lot of new age elements (like the hammer rite and calling quarters)....
While the original Germanic polytheism is more of a worldview, lifestyle instead of a written set of rules. Magic in the original polytheism is a fact, the way how the world is made, not something you can decide to practice or not.

Asatru is a modern construct with a few original elements.
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Old 12-28-2009, 01:27 PM
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Side note: Hammer Rite is not widely accepting in Asatru, especially not the more recon groups. It is generally rejected as New Age or Wiccan.

Asatru is Norse/Icelandic based and German is...well Germanic. There are lot of culturally based traditions in Heathenism which encompasses all of them (Asatru, Theodism, etc)
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Old 12-29-2009, 01:27 PM
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No Asatru or for that matter Germanic Pagan variety of any sort is the official religion of a sovereign state these days. Today's groups are voluntary, independent of government and almost entirely religious in nature. That was not the case in the past. We have also done away with human sacrifice. Most religions do it at some time (even shows up in the Jewish Scriptures, plus of course in a literal interpretation of the crucifixion and the Christian Eucharist), and most religions also eventually stop human sacrifice. Due to ease of communication and limited surviving sources, Asatru today is far more homogeneous than it was in Heathen times, and the same goes for other varieties of Germanic Paganism.
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