Irminenschaft

Irminenschaft (or, Irminism, Irminenreligion) is a current of Ariosophy based on a Germanic deity Irmin which is supposedly reconstructed from literaric, linguistic and onomastic sources. Among other sources the Prefix "Irmin" is documented in the Irminsul "great pillar that supports all"/"Columna Universalis Sustenans Omni", as described in Einhards 'Vita Karoli Magni', and informed by Tacitus (~1st century) via a mentioned Germanic tribe name of Hermiones; The Old Saxon adjective irmin being synonymous to "great, strong". As such it may also have been an epithet of later deities like Ziu (Týr) or Wodan (Odin)). Purported evidence also stems from the occurrence of the word "Irmingot", found in the Old High German "Hildebrandslied". Notably the Nazi occultist Karl Maria Wiligut claimed a historical Irminism, established in 12,500 BC, later ousted by Wotanism.

References

Wiligut, Karl Maria (2001). The Secret King: Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lord of the Runes. Dominion. ISBN 1-885972-21-0.
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2003). The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology. Gardners Books. ISBN 1-86064-973-4. ; originally published as Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (1992). The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology; The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935. New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-3060-4.
Mund, Rudolf. 1982. Der Rasputin Himmlers: Die Wiligut Saga.
Lange, Hans-Jürgen. 1998. Karl Maria Wiligut - Himmlers Rasputin und seine Erben.

Paganism (historical and modern)

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Historical polytheism	Altaic Tungusic Turkic-Mongolic Ancient Near Eastern: Mesopotamian Canaanite Egyptian Semitic Finno-Ugric (Uralic): Finnish-Estonian Caucasian: Georgian Vainakh Indo-European: Armenian Celtic Germanic Anglo-Saxon Continental Norse Greek Sacred mysteries Hero cult Persian Roman Imperial cult Scythian Slavic Vedic Mesoamerican: Aztec Maya Olmec

Myth and ritual	Animal worship Ethos Folklore Magic and religion Myth and ritual Mythology Orthopraxy Religion and mythology Ritual Sacrifice animal human Sorcery Veneration of the dead Virtue Witchcraft

Christianization	Christianization of saints and feasts Christianity and Paganism Constantinian shift Hellenistic religion Iconoclasm Neoplatonism Religio licita Virtuous pagan

Modern pagan movements	Contemporary witchcraft: Cochranianism Feri Stregheria Wicca Ethnic / Reconstructionist: Armenian Baltic Dievturība Druwi Romuva Canarian Caucasian Abkhaz Circassian Celtic Turkic Chuvash Altai Germanic Hellenism Hungarian Italo-Roman Kemetic Ossetian Romanian Semitic Slavic Uralic Estonian Finnish Mari Mordvin Udmurt European Congress of Ethnic Religions Goddess movement Neo-Druidism

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