Odinist religion worships a pantheon of deities. The ancient Norse people, who lived in Scandinavia during the Viking Age from approximately the 9th century to the 11th century CE, practiced it as their native religion.

Mills’s Odinist religion was quite different from what modern Ásatrú would later become. It was nearly monotheistic; Odin, for Mills, was essentially synonymous with the One God, being “that of the Great One which man can know” (The Odinist Religion, p. 117)

The Odinist afterlife has several destination, depending on how one has lived (and died). The most esteemed go to Valhalla, brought there by warrior maidens called Valkyries. Some Rites of Odinism [] Blót is the term for the historical Norse sacrifice in honour of the gods. Odinist blóts are often celebrated outdoors.

Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.It was replaced by Christianity and forgotten during the Christianisation of Scandinavia.Scholars reconstruct aspects of North Germanic Religion by historical linguistics ...

Odinist Fellowship; The chief deity in Odinism is Odin, who is also called Woten, Woden, or the Alfadir (All-Father). Odin is the god of war, death, and wisdom. This modern heathen religion also worships a pantheon of other gods and goddesses, including: Loki, the trickster god; Thor, the god of thunder; Baldur, the god of purity and light

Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886). Odin (/ ˈ oʊ d ɪ n /; [1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and ...

Odinism starts with the individual and extends, through the family, to the community and the world. So with worship, which is at present practiced mostly at family level, the festivals of the Odinist year being celebrated in the home, with friends and …

In 1973 John Gibbs-Bailey (known as "Hoskuld") and John Yeowell (known as "Stubba", 1918–2010) founded the Committee for the Restoration of the Odinic Rite or Odinist Committee in England. [9] Yeowell had been a member of the British Union of Fascists in his youth and bodyguard to leader Oswald Mosley . [ 10 ]

Dec 31, 2014 · 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

There are several different branches of Odinism/Asatru, including Wotanism, Wodenism, the Odin Brotherhood, the Odinic Rite, and the Odinist Fellowship. Each practice is pagan (non-Christian) and polytheistic (believes in many gods) in its beliefs.