Gods in the Abyss

Essays on Heidegger, the Germanic Logos and the Germanic Myth

Askr Svarte

• Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781912975884
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

How can we find stability in the Night of the World? How can we anchor ourselves in the void of existence, the great nothingness of the endless dark plain ahead of us? The new voices of the old Gods can be heard from afar, beckoning us back into the fold of the folk. Where will we wander? Into oblivion or the primeval forest, from whence we came and to which we have always belonged and thus must return?

The meanings of words spell out the destinies of men. Acknowledging the roots of language leads us to an understanding of where we now stand and where we must go if we do not want to perish. The Gods without must once again become the Gods within, so we can hear for the last time the faint whispers of our ancestors guiding us into a better tomorrow.

Notes

[←1 ]

See Askr Svarte, Polemos: The Dawn of Pagan Traditionalism.

[←2 ]

See Askr Svarte, Gap: The Left Hand Path approach to Odinism.

[←3 ]

See Fichte J.G., Addresses to the German Nation.

[←4 ]

Old Icelandic text by Guðni Jónsson.

[←5 ]

This topic is explained in detail in Polemos.

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We are talking about the modernist social construct of the “nation,” but fundamentally different from the French principle of “nation state” by citizenship.

[←7 ]

See Fourth Address, “The chief difference between the Germans and the other peoples of Teutonic descent,” Chapter 51.

[←8 ]

The term by J.G. Fichte meant to substitute the Greek term “philosophy” in line with the linguistic purity doctrine. See Fifth Address “The consequences of the difference that has been indicated,” Chapter 59.

[←9 ]

See Friedrich Georg Jünger, “Language and Thinking.”

[←10 ]

In pagan traditionalism, this opposition further develops into the war of Tradition with Modernity along the axes of paganism-paganus-Tradition and creationism-urbanus (Christianity)-Modernity.

[←11 ]

See “Ancient Germans. The History of Latin-German Wars in the Descriptions of Ancient Historians.”

[←12 ]

“Heiðarvíga saga,” translated by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon, 1892.

[←13 ]

Modern Icelandic uses the form folk.

[←14 ]

It is important to clarify that in the time of the Third Reich Martin Heidegger was sceptical about völkisch in “The Black Notebooks,” but this is due to the fact that he used this word in the sense of “nationalism” in a historical and ideological context different from the traditionalist translation of this word as “peopleism.”

[←15 ]

See F.G. Jünger, Griechische Mythen.

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See also Natella Speranskaya, “Dionysus the Pursued.”

[←17 ]

See Ernst Jünger, Der Arbeiter. Herrschaft und Gestalt (1932, “The Worker. Supremacy and Gestalt”), Strahlungen (1948, “Reflections”), Siebzig verweht (1980, “Seventy passed”), Der Waldgang (1951, “The Forest Passage”).

[←18 ]

See Icelandic and Norwegian runic song (Runakvædi).

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It is noteworthy that in the Russian “заморозить” (“to freeze”) the Indo-European root *mor, *mar/mare is heard, which stands for “death,” “a ghost from the world of the dead,” “apparition.” It descends into such Russian words as у-морить (kill, starve to death), за-морить (tire out), за-морыш (starveling), мор (pestilence, murrain), the name of the Goddess of the Death Mara/Morena; the English “nightmare” (which is a calque from the French couchemar).

[←20 ]

See the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, XLIX.

[←21 ]

For other versions see И.О. Негреев, «Образ Бальдра в контексте древнескандинавского культа Одина».

[←22 ]

See А. Я., Гуревич «Эдда и сага».

[←23 ]

In Russian the words “the west” and “to sink down” sound alike, thus provoking numerous puns — translator’s note.

[←24 ]

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Table of contents

• Foreword to the English Edition
• I. Approach and Encirclement
• II. Language
• III. War as the Centre of Being of the German Logos
• IV. The God of Wonder and Poetry
• V. Being-Towards-Death
• VI. The Concealment of the Abyss
• VII. Aλήθεια
• VIII. Nothingness
• IX. Götter und Gottheit
• X. The Language of the Year: A-I-U and Silence
• XI. The Language of Scandinavian Dasein
• XII. Loki and Prometheus
• XIII. Man and His Structures
• XIV. The Concealment of Europe
• XV. Wald und Nebel
• XVI. Resume: the Last Horizon
• Literature
• Other Books Published by Arktos
• Notes