America is Ancient Germania
He [Denis Duclos] goes on to suggest that the cultural ecology of the medieval Nordic world and that of post-modern America actually have much more in common than might first appear. Firstly, he compares Germania’s struggle for autonomy from Ancient Rome with America’s freedom from the more centralized order of Europe. Secondly, he notes that much of North America beyond its sprawling cities–like the northern Europe of old–has vast wilderness with many remote and isolated communities. Thirdly, and for him, most importantly there is a large Nordic population in North America of Anglo-Saxon, German and Scandinavian origin. These factors make modern America an ideal place for the northern myths to revive: ‘Medieval oscillation between discipline and energy, mechanical flow and savagery, “put itself on hold”, storing up its potential over time until it could release it into the more receptive environment of American culture.’…
There is then a consensus between Jung and Duclos—namely that Odin has returned to exact a dramatic effect on the northern peoples in a violent catastrophic fashion, in Germany in the earlier part of the 20th century and in America in the final stages of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. And, for all their differences, the two agree that Odin is a force which cannot be suppressed and that he has an agenda of his own.
Richard Rudgley “Pagan Resurrection”
We ‘put ourselves on hold’. Interesting way of putting it.
The Old Gods never died. They just ducked under the wave of Abrahamic assault, living right beneath the surface of consciousness in our Volk, for a thousand years. And now Odin is finally remerging. He appeared in Germany last century. And now he is visiting us here in north America. Birth place of the second Odinic experiment.
America is new/old Germania–this is becoming clear. There are many similarities that we Americans share with the old Germanic ‘barbarians’—and that set us apart from Europeans. The free movement across a vast space. The tradition of every man carrying a weapon. The lack of hierarchical institutions. The love of natural liberty.
It has been said that early America—frontier America—was a renewal of the primitive Nordic freedom that we once enjoyed in Europe before feudalism. In North America, the yeoman and woodsman were able to flourish and regain their old independence…for a time.