[lbo-talk] Another obscure question (on witches this time)

[Kevin Robert Dean]

Shane Mage wrote:
>> They're a mixed batch when it comes to this question, if I am remembering
>> my history correctly.  I think Himmler had some interests, and there were
>> some intellectuals exploring this terrain, but Hitler and Goebbels tended
>> to look  at these endeavors with a certain amount of contempt, holding to
>> a certain cynical materialism....  robert wood
>>
> As I recall, the main Nazi occultist was Rudolf Hess.  That he was
> in effect gagged for the last half-century of his life was probably
> not unconnected to that fact.
> 
> Shane Mage

A bit off topic here.   I recall reading that in some of the Nordic 
countries, there is a 'surge' of sorts of people turning back to the OLD 
TIME religion of Odin et al.  A lot of that seems to be connected to the 
rejection of Christianity of course.   I remember a trip to Oslo back a 
few years ago to a Viking museum and the tour guide had some rather 
unflattering things to say about Christian attempts to convert those 
barbarians.  Something about Xtians putting snakes down peoples throats 
if they didn't comply and other pleasantries.

But there is always the darker Nationalistic white-euro-pride that goes 
along with that as well.  I've seen a few Nationalistic sites go off on 
Christianity for being too Jewish and pushing to embrace the old White 
gods.

I happen to enjoy music from that region (Hednigarna, Garmarna, Mari 
Boine--please check these folks out if you can!) but since I can't 
understand the language, I just hope I don't ignorantly wind up 
listening to something I would regret later.