Asatru Holidays - October 2024 - Hoskuld ｜ von List ｜ McNallen ｜ Winter Nights
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On October 1st, 2023, the AFA marked the first official celebration of a day of remembrance for John Gibbs Bailey, better known as Hoskord. On October 9th, we marked the Day of Remembrance for Meister Guido von List. And on October 19th, it's Hanne Day.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and folk of all ages.
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you know what time it is it is time for the holidays holy days and days of
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remembrance for our folk and October 2024 we start today October 1st is the
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day of remembrance for John Gibbs Bailey October 9th we have the day of
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remembrance for Meister Guido von List. We help celebrate the birthday of
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Father MacNellan on October 15th and on October 19th is winter nights. Well we
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got a lot to go over today for holidays let's get down to it and as I said on
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On October 1st is the Day of Remembrance for John Gibbs Bailey, born May 22nd, 1913, and passed away on January 1st, 2003.
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John Gibbs Bailey, better known as Hoskold, was a very private man.
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There are no known photographs of him, and even those in the highest positions within
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the Odinic Rite knew very little about his personal life.
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His birth date as well as the date of his death are not commonly known.
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Despite this lack of information, the legacy of Hoskord is one that continues to impact
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While we do not have much information about his life, it is commonly known that Gibbs
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Bailey had an interest in organized Osatru since at least the 1930s.
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Throughout the years, Gibbs Bailey realized that in order to truly organize Osatruar,
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he would need a strong foundation and doctrine.
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Gibbs Bailey met John Yorl in the late 1950s, and in 1973, they founded the Committee for
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During the early years of the Odinist Committee, Gibbs Bailey held a more public role.
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He began to use the name Hoskald, one he had adopted from the name of Hoskald Dalla Corson,
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an Icelandic Góthi who lived in the 10th century Common Era.
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It was also during this time that many of Hoskold's ideas on doctrine were recorded,
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the most notable examples of this being the Nine Noble Virtues.
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Although Hoskold had been working on the Nine Noble Virtues for many years by this point,
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it was not until his partnership with Stubba that they took on their current formats.
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Prior to this, there were only eight virtues, and they were not in the same order used today.
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In the late 1970s, it was decided amongst the two founders that Stubba would begin to take
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on a more public-facing role and Hoskold would step back from the spotlight.
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In the 1980s, after Stubba renamed the organization The Odinic Rite, Hoskold was named the first
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Not much else is known about the life and deeds of Hoskold after this point.
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Despite the lack of biographical information, we can still learn from the life of Hoskord.
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The very virtues by which we live our lives as Asatruar were first compiled by Hoskord
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and form a foundation for all those of our faith.
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On October 1st, 2023, the AFA marked the first official celebration of a day of remembrance
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Alrighty, we follow that up on October 9th for the Day of Remembrance for Meister Guido von List.
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Born October 5th, 1848. Passed away May 17th, 1919.
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Born in 1848 in Vienna, Guido Carl Anton List was the son of a prosperous middle-class family
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who traded and worked in the leather goods industry.
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Raised a Roman Catholic, List found his love of mythology and history early in life,
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often acknowledging that his beliefs in the Isil and Odin in particular
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his big ambition was to live his life doing the things he loved.
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His father, however, pressured him strongly into taking over the family business.
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In his spare time, he continued to write and paint.
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He also took part in several leisure sports clubs such as rowing and mountaineering.
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During one of his many trips, Liszt purportedly left his group to spend a solitary summer atop Gieselberg Fort.
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Here it is said he reaffirmed his belief in Odin.
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Upon the death of his father in 1877, Liszt abandoned his family business in favor of pursuing his riding passion.
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Despite being an avid believer in Odin, he married his second wife in a Protestant ceremony
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This didn't hamper his writings or his influence, however, and by 1902 when his writings took
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on a different direction, it was a prolific and well-known voice in the nationalist and
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Volkish movements. It was in 1902 that von List had his great epiphany. After a cataract
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surgery left him blind for 11 months, List was left with much time for reflection and
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meditation. During this time, he discovered the Arminen runes. He called this set of runes
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the proto-language of the Aryan race. It was through these runes that von List's occult
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ideas and writings evolved. The popularity of his ideas exploded amongst the wealthy
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middle class of Austria and Germany at the time, and the Guido von Gesellschaft was born.
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Von List society further evolved, and on the mid-summer of 1911, the inner group called
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the High Armist Order was created. While the main group focused on his occult and political
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ideologies. The inner group was dedicated to the worship of Olden through his writings
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and sacred pilgrimages. With food shortages after the war, and old age creeping up on
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him, von West's health deteriorated. In May of 1919, he passed away at the age of 71.
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His body was cremated and buried in an urn in the Vienna Central Cemetery, Central Friedshof.
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Among his many novels, plays, and political manuscripts, it was his first dedicated occult
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manuscript, Das Geheimnis der Runen, or The Secret of the Runes, that really set Squid
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Dovan Westup as a forefather of modern Asatru, influencing many including the Asatru hero
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We can never anticipate when the spark of inspiration will lead to the flame of an idea.
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It's easy to look at that inspiration and say that it isn't real, or it's just imagination
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With faith, however, our limitations can be cast off.
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Each one of us can accomplish great things if we work hard enough and maintain our faith.
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Guido von List is the dedicated hero of Oldensof.
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For more information and a deeper dive into the life and acts of Meister Von List, check
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On October 15th, I don't know if we would call it a holiday, and we certainly yet wouldn't
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call it a day of remembrance but it is definitely a day of honor the birthday
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of our founder Stephen McNallan anyone who has raised a horn in honor of our
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ancestral gods has done so because of or in spite of Stephen McNallan as Harry
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Yothee, Matt Frivel, Ostara in the South, March 2020.
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This month we celebrate the birth of our founder, Stephen McNallan.
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Before he became the father of modern Osatru, before he started a religious movement on his own,
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before the Kennewick Man, he was born in a small rural town in Texas in 1948.
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On a more intimate level, I chose my parents well.
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My father was a hard-working Irish Catholic oil hand who had come to Texas for the oil
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boom some years earlier, and my mother was a loving, kind, and intelligent woman who
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significantly bought me the books I wanted and read them to me.
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Founder MacNallan developed an interest in pre-Christian religion in college after reading
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In 1968 or 69, he dedicated himself to the worship of the gods of Europe.
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In 1969-70, he founded the first Ossetru church in the New World, the Viking Brotherhood,
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He began writing and distributing the Rune Stone, which was hand-typed and copied on
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At first it was a private thing, but then I began quietly promoting the religion, which
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at that point I simply called Norse Paganism, as I had no name for it.
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About the time of my graduation from college, I started a miniscule publication called The
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Within a year or so, August 29, 1972, I had received recognition of the Viking Brotherhood
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After reading Magnus Magnusson's book, Hammer of the North, or first heard the word Osatru,
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Founder MacNallan began to use and promote his religious ideal as Osatru rather than
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At some point during his time in the U.S. Army, Founder MacNallan began to adopt the
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belief that Ossetru was a religion of the peoples of Europe rather than being a religion
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In 1976, after being discharged from the army, he renamed the Viking Brotherhood to the Ossetru
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After seeing what American Ossetru had developed into, which denied the Ossetru was a uniquely
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ethnic faith, Mr. McNallan stepped back into the Ossetru scene, establishing the Ossetru
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Folk Assembly, the emphasis on folk to differentiate from the universalist lie that threatened
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I wrote to Ossetru a native European spirituality, which defines my convictions and purpose.
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We purchased a permanent building which became Oldenhof, our first temple to the gods.
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The AFA has since expanded to include four Hofs in the USA and continues to grow.
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In 2016, after leading the Ostrow Folk Assembly for 20 years, I turned it over to a younger
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generation and started the next phase of my service to my gods and my folk.
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In the years since Mr. McNallan retired, he has remained an active participant in Odenshof
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with charitable giving and contributing in any way possible.
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It is often said that we stand on the shoulders of giants, and none are more giant than that of our founder, the first Asheriogothi.
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Thank you, and happy birthday, Mr. McNown, from all of us in the Asatru Folk Assembly.
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And our final special day for the month is the holiday of Winter Nights, which falls on October 19th of 2024.
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Autumn has officially started. The days are noticeably shorter. The nights are noticeably cooler. The trees are ablaze with the colors of fall, and the crunching of the fallen leaves underfoot has begun.
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This was a time of drawing in close, of hearth and home and family.
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For our ancestors this was not an autumn festival, but a quiet winter rite in which the female
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spirits were honored in a rite called the Sierblot.
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Today winter nights is often seen as the death of the physical world, the world we can see,
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It is the world of high energy, of spirits, it is that deeper feeling and connection to
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This is the time we honor our Desir, our female ancestors.
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remember that without our ancient mothers we could not be. They care for the home and
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the hearth fires. They care for their families. Our ancient mothers with strength and determination
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raise the next generation against odds we cannot really begin to fathom. With the harvests
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finished, there is a quiet lull before we turn our minds to the hectic holiday season.
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Now is a good time to turn inwards in introspection and self-improvements.
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It is also the time to meditate on things of a more spiritual nature.
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Well, thank you so much everybody for another month.
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But until then, hail the gods, hail the folk, hail Haskold, hail Meister Guido von List,
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hail Founder McNallan, hail the Mothers, and hail the AFA.