Concluding remarks
It therefor appears, that with masonic usages there is a large number, that have a striking resemblance with those of Heathen-cultic societies, and also with...
Looking back and compare.
Some 15 years ago I got involved in contemporary heathenry. Some 2½ years ago I was initiated into a Masonic lodge. Time for a comparison?...
Norse myth and mysteries
Johan Ernst Jasper (1874-1945) was a Freemason who lived in Dutch occupied Indonesia and who died in a Japanese camp during WWII. He wrote extensively...
Odal
On the right you can see a page from the book Zinnebeelden in Nederland by W. van Heemskerck Düker and H. van Houten (1943). The word “zinnebeeld”...
Frimurerne I Vikingtiden
A couple of months ago there was a tiny stir in the ‘social world’ about a Norwegian book about “Freemasonry In Viking Times” by the...
Bronze age apron?
An image I stole from the website of the Ullensaker museum. The image is a bronze age figure wearing what looks like an apron with runes....
World pillar with a net
Thereafter they voyaged till they found a great silvern column. It had four sides, and the width of each of these sides was two oar-strokes...
Yeavering
Farwerck draws comparisons between the “oblong square” form of a lodgeroom and remains of temples in Iceland. There was also such a temple in a...
Öndvegissúlur
Öndvegissúlur, or high-seat pillars, were a pair of wooden poles placed on each side of the high-seat—the place where the head of household would have...
Old Saxon texts
In Utrecht, the Netherlands, a text was found from the time of the Christianisation of these parts, the end of the 8th century. It has...