An illustrated book detailing some of the more commonly-held beliefs and ritual practices of Odinists and those that adhere to Asatru. Produced by Irv Slauson of the Asatru Free Church Committee of Red Wing, Montana in 1978 ================= THE RELIGION OF ODIN - A HANDBOOK - TABLE OF CONTENTS The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Page 1 Odin's Rune Song 2 The Hammer Token 2 Prediction from "The Oracles of Nostradamus" 3 The Priesthood of Odin 3 The Religion of Odin - An Introduction 4 The Name of the Religion 10 Who was Odin? Historian Edward Gibbons 10 Who was Odin? From the Prose Edda 10 The Mission of Odinism - N.J. Templin, Elder, The Runic Society 15 What is the Odinist Religion? - From the Asatru Free Assembly, Turlock, California 15 What is Odinism? The Odinist Movement 18 What are the Principles of Odinism? The Asatruarmenn of Iceland 20 What are the Principles of Odinism? .... The Asatru Free Church Committee 21 What are the Principles of The Asatru Free Assembly-California 23 This is Odinism The Odinist Committee, London, England 24 The Nature of Odin The Asatru Free Church Committee 25 Is there an Afterlife? The Asatru Free Church Committee 28 Excerps from the Poem - "Sigurd, the Volsung", by Wm Morris Page 31 The New Heathen of Germany Asatru Free Church Committee Helgi Hundingsbani 34 The Song of the Shield Ring Helgi Hundingsbani 38 Odin, Asatru, and the Exploration of Space - From the Asatru Free Assembly - California 39 The Havamal, or Words of the High One Thorpe's Translation 43 Page 58 INSERT Lettered Pages Foundations of Odinism a thru n Erich Ludendorff (Photo) o Tasman Forth...(Photo) p Odinist Wedding q thru s The Burial Mounds at Old Uppsala t A Name-Giving Ceremony u thru v Frey (illustration) w The Coming of the Norseman (Illustration) X The Franks invade Gaul (illustration) y The Vikings in Russia (Illustration) z Instruction concerning Conduct aa thru cc Communion dd thru ff The Gods A Thumbnail Sketch Helgi Hundingsbani 68 Odinist Organizations 75 Odinist Periodicals 76 The Odinist Calender of Festivals 77 The Odinist Calenders 78 Some Odinist Religious Observances 80 The Philosophy of Courage By US Civil War General Horace Porter Reprinted from the "Survivor" by Kurt Saxon 82 The Gene Pool & Sexual Survival By Kurt Saxon Reprinted from the "Survivor" 97 What are the Runes? Reprinted from the "Rune stone" - The Asatru Free Assembly 102 Forming an Odinist Study Group or Church The Asatru Free Church Committee page 106 A List of Study Texts 110 Places of interest to Odinists 112 Viking Funeral The Runic Society 119 Burial Customs of the Teutons 120 The Odinic Funeral Asatru Free Church Committee 126 Glossary of Names and Definitions IMZ The Marks of Liberty 152