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ASATRU: Europes Ancient Religion Reborn

By Gabriella
http://www.vaidilute.com/asatru.html

There are many names for the religion which here I call satr: Pagan, Heathen, Norse,
Odinism, Wotanism, the Troth, even the religion of the Vikings... Some people insist on just
some one of these terms and reject the others. In any case, the word satr means, roughly,
belief in or to honor the ancient Gods and Goddesses of Northern Europe. However, it is
best described as the modern rebirth of the real religion of the European people. Today satr is
the re-awakening of the indigenous pre-Christian faith of the Northern Europeans.
The origins of the word are from the Old Norse language the language of ancient
Scandinavia, the last place where this religion existed in its purest form. satr is the name by
which the Norsemen themselves called their religion. satr is essentially their cultural legacy. It
is the tradition which these European people lived by.
It is a very ancient religion far older than Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, or most other
religions. In fact, satr is thousands of years old. Its beginnings are lost in prehistory. Strictly
speaking, since satr is the religion which springs from the specific spiritual beliefs of the
ancient Europeans, it is probably as old as this particular branch of humankind. The spirit it
expresses is as ancient as the European people themselves at least 40,000 years, and perhaps
much older.
It began probably near the same time as Homo Sapiens on the European continent gained enough
sentience to begin questioning their origin and developed speech patterns enough to discuss these
ideas with others. It was one of the key factors in the development of Europe into a civilized
culture, introducing concepts such as law, justice systems, and tribal culture interactions.
Long before Christianity took over Europe, there was an organized indigenous religion already
there. satr is indeed the original, or native, religion of the peoples who occupied most of

Europe. Geographically speaking, on the European continent satr was practiced from
Scandinavia and Britain in the north, down through France and Germany in the south, and to as
far east as Russia... When the tribes migrated so did the religion. As an organized religion,
satr seems to be about 8,000 years old.
Before Christianity came to Europe, the religion, culture, and society of the European people all
were based around their heathen beliefs. Heathenism was the dominant influence that shaped the
people of the rugged lands of Northern Europe.
satr was then and is now a tribal, or folk religion. As such, it shares much with other
indigenous tribal traditions, including those of the Native American Indians. satr actually has
a lot in common with the American Indian religion. Both are tribal, both honor the ancestors, and
both have much to teach us about our connection with the natural world around us. Both teach
high personal principles... satr and the way of the Indians are both the indigenous religions of
a specific people.
As ancient religion and culture flourished in the tribes of the European forests, the invading
Christians first found it opportune to slaughter as many of these tribes as possible. Then the
parasitic Christian priests seized control of the remaining people, and crushed the European
heathen spirit, just as the great Aztec and Maya people were later crushed in the Americas.
When the Christian conquistadors invaded America, they thought that their faith was superior to
the one of the Aztec and Maya civilizations. Gold religious artifacts were melted down to make
money, scriptures were burned, native peoples were enslaved and forced to live according to the
ways of the invaders.
This is the very same thing that has happened to our people when Europeans were invaded by
Christianity: our ancestors religion was outlawed, our places of worship were destroyed, those
who knew our old ways were murdered and those who wanted to learn from them were punished
or also murdered.
People who resisted the new Christian religion were tortured and executed. Every form of
resistance throughout the course of history was violently repressed I can for instance name the
witch hunts and the Inquisition when thousands of people were brutally murdered in a holocaust
organized by the Christian church.
The satr religion was also subjected to a violent campaign of repression over a period of
hundreds of years. Countless thousands of our people were murdered or maimed in the process.
However, the common European folk did not give up their cherished beliefs quickly or easily.
The truth is, you can never strip the beliefs from a people of honor, and satr was merely
suppressed rather than annihilated. Therefore, today it is definitely not some New Age
religion. Many followers of satr known today as satrers or satrars call themselves
Heathens in memory and in honor of the ancestors that preferred to die rather then be converted
to Christianity.
The center of this Christian new way was the religion of Jesus Christ, some Jewish rebel who
was condemned to death by his own people for impersonating himself as being the son of
Yahweh, god of the Judaic monotheistic religion. But actually there is virtually no accurate
historical proof that a Jew by the name of Jesus actually lived some 2000 years ago, doing his

thing with miracles and rising from the dead. Practically everything people know about Jesus
comes from the Gospels all of which were written decades after his alleged death and
resurrection. Curiously, no literature is existent from that period that questions the gospels and its
bizarre tales. And even if the gospels are correct, it is interesting to note that Christian
theologians have always resisted attempts at presenting the Church teachings in a neutral light,
fearing that in so doing, most people would reject such teachings.
My own particular interest lies in our Lithuanian branch of ancient pagan religion, called
Romuva, which is uniquely Baltic.
The Balts are exceptional among other Indo-European groups because we have maintained our
ancient language, folklore, pagan beliefs and customs in a remarkably pure state for very long. In
fact, we were the very last European Pagans.
Lithuania was officially first Christianized in 1251 but soon renounced Christianity in 1263.
After more than hundred years, in 1387, Lithuania was Christianized again. But for a long time
the new religion retained only a superficial hold on the population, which remained stubbornly
pagan. Church chronicles over the centuries reported staunch resistance to Christianity among
Lithuanians. The last Pagan temple in the capital Vilnius was closed only at the end of the 18th
century.
It was the monolithic organization of the Christian Church, bolstered by threats of economic
isolation and aided by conversion of the ruling classes, that eventually triumphed over all the
European people.
Or so it seemed... Despite all the persecution, elements of satr continued down to our times
often in the guise of folklore proving that our own native religion appeals to our innermost
beings in a fundamental way. satr never really quite died out.
Now, more than a thousand years after its supposed demise, it is alive and growing. Indeed, so
long as there are men and women of European race, it cannot really die because it springs from
the soul of our people. satr isnt just what we believe, its what we are. Our indigenous faith
underpins everything satrers do. Of necessity, this pitches them into opposition to the rootless,
profiteering cosmopolitanism of the Judeo-Christians.
Now I want to tell a bit about this religion itself. satrers agree on certain basic tenets and
beliefs, but after that they are free to interpret their religion in their own way and practice it,
within certain parameters, accordingly. Unlike most religions, there is no politically correct
way of thinking. Individuals within satr are free physically, mentally and spiritually. This
is why satr is unlike the better-known religions in many ways.
First of all, while most modern religions are monotheistic (one god), satr has a wide
pantheon of Gods and Goddesses. It is a polytheistic religion. The satr pantheon of deities
consists of many Gods and Goddesses, whom satrers view as sources of inspiration and
knowledge.
satr means Faith in sir and also the Vanir, who are best known to most people as the Gods
and Goddesses of the Old Norse legends, although these same deities were once worshipped by

other peoples of pre-Christian Europe and also other Aryans, as far east as India (the Deities of
the Rig Veda).
However, because the Old Norse legends provide the best knowledge of them, we usually refer
to the Gods and Goddesses by their Old Norse names by which they were called in ancient times:
Frigga and Odin, Tyr and Loki, Sif and Thor, Freya and Baldur, and so forth.
Followers of satr do not actually pray to their Gods and Goddesses the way most people mean
by the word. satrers never surrender their will or humble themselves before Gods and
Goddesses, because we see ourselves as their kin, not as their property. Nor do satrers beg and
plead. They do not approach their Gods and Goddess on bended knee. Our deities need us as
much as we need them. It is a union of honor...
Heathens do not worship, but follow the old Norse Gods. The term worship implies that one
being is higher then another and that is not the relationship that the satrers have with their
Gods. Many of the Nordic Gods have a flaw, if you will, (Tyr is missing one hand, Odin is
missing one eye and so on.) they are neither omniscient nor perfect. The Gods are said to come
to Midgard (earth) and ask for the help of humans on many occasions. Thus, Heathens look up
to, work along side of and commune with their Gods.
Yes, our Gods are fallible. They make mistakes, and they can also die. But are they inferior? Not
at all, our gods are not static deities, they learn and grow just as we do. This is the strength of a
living religion.
satrers commune with the Gods and Goddesses, and honor them while seeking their blessing,
through formal rites (Blots and Sumbles) as well as through informal meditation. satrers
consider the Gods to be friends, albeit powerful ones, and so satrers gather on their holy days
to commune with the Gods. Again, they do so as friends they dont bow down to the deities
because satr is not a fear based religion. satrers stand strong in the face of their Gods.
satr also holds a belief in various other land spirits and a reverence of ancestors. There exists a
realm wherein dwell the Gods and Goddesses of our ancestors. These are those whom satrers
honor, and interact with today in ceremony, via personal gnosis and through living honorable and
worthy lives. satrers believe that these Beings reflect aspects of Nature, both internal to
ourselves and external in the widest sense of the word. satrers believe that the Gods care for
us, as we do them and that they are interdependent with us that we affect them, and they
affect us. satrers believe in standards of behavior which are consistent with the spiritual truths
expressed through the Gods, and which are harmonious with our deepest being.
Actually, living a full and virtuous life is like a form of prayer itself. The satr religion affects
all aspects of peoples lives, not just some fragments that they choose to call religious. These
principles that satrers live by differ from the monotheistic religions in many respects.
While individual Christians may honestly believe in freedom, yet their scriptures say that they all
are slaves to their Almighty God. Judeo-Christian scriptures say all people are subject to the Will
of their God upon penalty of everlasting torture for refusal.
Christians may accept that joy is good, but their teachings burden them with guilt because of
some imaginary original sin or other failings. They perhaps would like to understand the real

world on a pragmatic basis, from verifiable evidence, yet they are told to suspend any critical
thought and believe dogmas black is white, round is flat, and natural instincts are evil
without question when the teachings of their church conflict with reason or with known facts
about the nature of the world (you must have faith)...
satrers do not accept the idea of original sin, the notion that we are tainted from birth and
intrinsically bad, as does Judeo-Christianity. Thus, people do not need saving and there is no
need to ask forgiveness to be redeemed or else face an eternity burning in hell.
The whole concept of an eternal afterlife of suffering is alien to indigenous European religious
thought. Why should one fear the afterlife? Everyone makes mistakes, but its how we deal with
them that is important. We dont ask our deities to forgive us, instead, we should try to learn
from our mistakes and live our lives as honorably as possible. If we live life fully (not to be
confused with frivolously), continually strive for self improvement, and learn from all the
obstacles we face in life, we will be prepared for whatever afterlife we earn.
There is no concept of a savior in satr. No one that you have to confess your sins to...
satrers believe that you are responsible for your own actions, and there is no the
devil-made-me-do-it type attitude.
The whole Christian concept of mankind is dominated by the concept of sin. Not the good and
positive aspects of man are put in the foreground but his guilt (whatever this may be). In my
opinion, this concept of sin is very much suited for the manipulation of people as long as they
are being told that they must repent of something they have not really done. The Christian
concept of sin is truly, in all senses, an instrument of exploitation.
Guilt is indeed an immensely powerful weapon. If once you can make a person feel guilty, make
feel that there is something wrong with her or him, you have gained a psychological ascendancy
over that person. Guilt is a weapon often used on psychologically vulnerable people.
The Christian churches have produced not only the concept of a God of absolute goodness
(whatever that might mean) but also his son, a man-god, someone like us, human beings, but
also terribly unlike us in his perfection and this man-god is placed before believers as an example
of what they must be... As counterparts to these rules, to fortify still further peoples sense of
unworthiness, are such rituals as the confession and litany in the Catholic church, in which
believers must grovel on their knees and murmur Oh Lord have mercy upon us miserable
sinners... What better way could be devised to make a person vulnerable to control?
Religious Christian people are almost always people with a high component of guilt and anxiety
for they can never, in the very nature of things, live up to the perfection that is demanded of
them.But above all, Judeo-Christian religion in society today is used to keep people in a state of
guilt, to mystify, to bamboozle, so that reality and myth, symbol and fact are all brought together
in a veritable quagmire of mental and emotional contradictions, so that people are uncertain even
about who they really are. Indeed, Christian religion today might be called the ideology of
confusion.
What better weapon could those who want to control us have than to keep us in a world of
fantasy? It is highly important for those who want to maintain the society as it is to prevent

people from seeing and dealing with the realities of their conditions, for if they did so they would
at once take steps to alter them.
It is not this world that matters, Christians are told; real life, the life of joy and happiness comes
when we are dead but only if we remain docile and obedient (blessed are the meek) in this
life. Blessed are the poor. The poor are extremely fortunate to be poor for they will inherit
everything, the whole earth after they are dead... What a load of nonsense!
Is it a wonder that so much effort, time and money goes into the religion business? The rhetoric
of Judeo-Christian religion is also calculated to evoke deeply embedded responses words such
as kindliness, goodwill, non-violence, love... These words blunt the consciousness and
obscure the need for action to secure change.
No, for satrers there is no such a things as guilt before God. Of course, there are good and
bad deeds but they are not being judged by God but by the community of human beings. Acting
against the community or social order would possibly be called bad or dishonorable. But even in
this case it must be checked why that individual acted like this and what the motives were.
Good and evil are not constants. What is good in one case will not be good in another, and evil in
one circumstance will not be evil under a different set of conditions. In any one instance, the
right course of action will have been shaped by the influence of the past and the present. The
result may or may not be good or evil, but it will still be the right action. In no case should
good and evil be dictated to us by the edicts of some alien, authoritarian deity, such as in
Judeo-Christianity. We should use our freedom, responsibility, and awareness of duty to serve
the highest and best ends.
Some of the qualities satrers hold in highest regard are strength, courage, joy, honor, freedom,
loyalty to kin, realism, vigor, and the revering of our ancestors. To express these things in our
lives is virtuous, and so we should strive to do this. Their opposites weakness, cowardice,
adherence to dogma rather than to the realities of the world, and the like constitute vices and
are to be avoided. Proper behavior in satr consists of maximizing ones virtues and
minimizing ones vices. This code of conduct reflects the highest and most heroic ideals of our
people.
satr beliefs are rooted in the past and in the sacred cosmology of the European people. As an
ethnic or folk religion the authoritative source of belief that can legitimately be considered
satr are the precedents found in the traditions, myths, folklore, literature, laws, customs, and
cultural concepts which were shaped by belief in the sir and other supernatural beings and
powers. There is no historical founder or prophet who made revealed pronouncements of law or
belief.
As I had mentioned above, satr is not a savior-based religion it has no christ or
messiah who reveals the so-called sacred word instead satr grew out of the natural
order of things over thousands of years.
satr does not have a codified dogma or written sacred scriptures in the usual accepted sense
of the word. satrers do not have a holy book, like the Judeo-Christian Bible.

However, they do have a number of surviving written sources that provide clues to the values of
the ancient cultures that honored our Gods and Goddesses. There are myths and sagas that have
been handed down to us from our ancestors which are very important to us and contain much of
the origins and basic tenets of satr. These are sources which are simply useful to satrers
because they contain much of our sacred lore in the form of myths and examples of right
conduct. The closest satr comes to such are the Eddas, the Prose and Poetic.
However, being aware that these ancient manuscripts have passed through many hands,
satrers do not consider them to be infallible or inspired documents. Any religion which does
this is deceiving itself about the purity and precision of the written word. The various competing
factions of Middle Eastern religions are proof of this. Their conflicting interpretations can not all
be correct.
There are two real sources of holy truth, and neither expresses itself to us in words. One is the
universe around us, which is a manifestation of the underlying divine essence. The other is the
universe inside us, passed down from our ancestors as instinct, emotion, and innate
predispositions, and perhaps even racial memory. By combining these sources of internal and
external wisdom with the literature left to us by our ancestors, we arrive at religious truths. This
living spiritual guidance is better than any dusty, dogmatic holy book, whose writings are often
so vague that even clerical scholars disagree on its meaning and whose interpretations change
with the politics of the times.
Many of us (I mean Europeans) instinctively believe in the values of satr simply because they
have been passed down to us from our ancestors. To find European virtues, one should look
where those virtues have their natural home satr.
The great Aryan philosopher Savitri Devi stated in her classical work The Lightning and the Sun,
The truth is that there is no other God but the immanent, impersonal divinity of
Nature-of-Life, the universal Self. No tribal god is God. Tribal gods are more or less divine, to
the extent they embody and express a more of less divine collective soul.
In satr there is simply no central authority that lays down dogma or tenets. There is no
injunction to proselytize, or any precedent for intolerance of other beliefs. satrers do not
proselytize. They will not come, like some Mormons or Jehovahs Witnesses, knocking at your
door trying to sell satr.
satr does not claim to hold the universal truth or to be a universal religion, a faith for all of
humankind. In fact, satrers dont think such a thing is possible. The followers of satr dont
believe that there is such thing as One True Religion for Everybody. They are convinced that
ethnic ancestral religions that were built by and for various ethnic peoples, are the most suitable
ones these are manifestations of the inner self of every person, and an expression of their
collective subconscious. The various branches of humanity have different ways of looking at the
world, each of which is valid for them, and thus naturally should have different religions, which
of course they do, or at least did...
satrers believe that each religion reflects the culture of the region in which it was created, that
the beliefs of a culture represent the values and ethics of its people (the German term volkisch
represents this vision). Each culture is unique and so each religion is or should be unique to its

people and therefore not transposable from one group to another. Because of this, people of
Northern European origins should practice satr those of Celtic origin should practice Celtic
heathenism and so on. Our ancestors were polytheists and therefore Judeo-Christianity being a
monotheist religion, having its roots in the desert, is an aberration for a race that has its origins in
the forests of Europe.
satr and Christianity both originated on a regional basis. For Christianity this was the Middle
East, but there was already a main Judaic religion in place at that time, so that the new Christians
had to swarm out and try to convert people somewhere else. I think that Christianity is a religion
without a people without Folk what comes reinterpreted as universal religion. I
personally reject this idea. The best religion for a human being should be his/her indigenous
religion. Not as a must but as a check it out... Only religions without Folk must recruit
subjects.
Judeo-Christianity teaches either a hatred of other religions or a duty to convert others, often by
force. They have often practiced these beliefs with cruel brutality. There was actually no history
of religious warfare in Europe before the coming of Christianity...
satr is also not a dogmatic religion. Obviously, like any religion, satr does have certain
rules of ethics but they are simply inherent to our people. These rules of ethics are recorded in
Hvaml (Words of the High One), a poem found in the Poetic Edda that describes the values as
well as the moral code of our ancestors as told by Wotan (or Odin) the father of all. However,
again, Hvaml should not be considered as something like the Judeo-Christian Ten
Commandments, but as a code of honor that should be respected.
Every satrer is free to regard the sir and Vanir, in his or her own way, as well as to practice
and modify the rituals as they see fit. This freedom remains so long as it does not go against the
basic values, contradict the code of honor, neglect or contradict the essence of our religion.
As a movement striving for European people to be freed of Judeo-Christian dogmas and
dictatorship, satrers are often labeled today as racists or hate-mongers by the
establishment. They are often being labeled even as White Supremacists.
But the truth is that satrers are in no way interested in a European supremacy, or world
government, imposing European culture on Africans or Asians. They have no desire to make all
of mankind build temples in the honor of Wotan, systematically destroying all traces of
ethno-cultural diversity of the world. This is exactly what Judeo-Christians did to other cultures
and religions.
satrers do not want to interfere with other cultures whatsoever. satrers do not want to
destroy other races or religions just because they are different from us, because they are better or
worse than us in one way or another... satrers definitely are not like Judeo-Christian
conquistadors who felt the need to colonize America and turn Indians into Judeo-Christian
Latinos. They are not like Judeo-Christianitys missionaries who felt the need to colonize
Africa and Asia.
We do not preach the supremacy of one people or race or religion above another. We do,
however, believe that every person should try to keep his culture as pure as possible. This is not

preaching racial hatred, as our praise of pure cultures means also pure African cultures, pure
Asian cultures, pure Indian cultures, and, of course, pure European cultures.
satrers accept and respect the right of others of whatever creed or color to absolute
self-determination. In return, they claim only the right to their own blood and soil to inhabit
and defend our ancestral lands in the way Europeans see fit. This entails an ethnoplural rather
than a multicultural vision of society. The folkish aspect is thus very important for us. This is
why many, if not most, satrers are strongly opposed to the so-called multiculturalism.
satrers believe that each individual culture is unique, as it is the result of the creative spirit of
each individual people. Culture is the mirror that reflects the profound nature as well as the
identity of a people. Our culture is our identity. Consequently, the mixing of cultures or peoples
only brings the destruction of the identity of each race or ethnic group involved, of the cultural
wisdom and richness accumulated over hundreds of years. Mixing cultures leads to anti-culture
(America is an example) and decline, as it destroys our identity. This has, sadly, been proven
already throughout history. A quick look through the history books is enough to make the tragic
reality quite evident.
Never, ever throughout history has one multicultural society survived. The Sumerian society, one
of the earliest urban societies on the face of the planet disappeared because so many different
cultures started to pop up in the city. Egyptian society went down for similar reasons. The
degeneration and the disappearance of these cultures was the result of their cultural and racial
mixing. Globalization will surely bring us to a similar end.
So call me a racist if you are forced to do so by your own sick totalitarian ideology, but you
are on the right way to prove me right, you are on the right way to help us awaken Europe and
the world from its Judeo-Christian illusion.
Another very important aspect of satr is the high respect, understanding and, most
importantly, the agreement with Mother Nature. satr is based on will and joy for life, on the
instinct of self-preservation, the need to search and find, the will to understand. Furthermore,
satr isnt only about a return to whats ours, its also an eternal striving to emphasize and
purify our peoples positive peculiarities. satr, or at least its fundamental idea, is the only
thing that can make us live and think as Europeans again.
It is the only thing that can shatter the lacerating chains shackled to the soul of our folk the
only thing that can make us cast off the yoke of a thousand years of contempt for ourselves,
nature, and for life itself. Now, as the final hour encroaches and the so-called New World Order
threatens our very survival, the satr is spearheading the resurgence of Aryan thought in
Europes war for its ultimate destiny.
It is the aim of satr to cultivate our European peoples positive characteristics, which in the
darkness of a thousand years of Judeo-Christianity (and later capitalism) have been suppressed
and systematically opposed.
Wherever Judeo-Christianity goes, it destroys or severely alters the established culture. It must
do that, since, quite simply put, Judeo-Christianity can not live in harmony with other belief
structures. The Christian Church recognized that very early, and for the last 1500 years has

terrorized the world with unheard of brutality (See for example, their infamous biblical quote:
Subdue the Earth).
satrers wish to find and to return to the positive attitudes of our ancestors where life was
considered as a gift from the Gods and where the respect for Nature was absolute. This love for
nature, this kindness and respect towards animals is the only thing that can save our successors
as well as us from the total decay born of abusive so-called modern civilization, and that will
prevent the total destruction of Mother Earth.
The first goal of satr is the respect for our blood, our heritage, our land and the spirituality of
our heathen ancestors. In practice, satrer is an individual who will eventually attempt to return
to this natural state, by his or her beliefs, actions and choice of lifestyle.
This experience allows us to be conscious of the environment that surrounds us and of the
profound nature of man and woman attempting to gain a primordial wisdom from the past.
satrers believe that the world of mystification of nature by satr will help reawaken this
primordial part of our collective subconscious, which has too long been repressed by the plague
of the Christian cross and of capitalism.
satrers treasure the spiritual awe, the feeling of connecting with the Gods and Goddesses,
which can come from experiencing and appreciating the beauty and majesty of Nature. satr
deities act in and through natural law. By working in harmony with Nature, satrers can in a
way become co-workers with the Gods. This attitude removes the opposition between the
natural and supernatural and between religion and science.
For satrers, following a Nature religion means recognizing that they are part of Nature,
subject to all its laws. They may be Gods-in-the-making, but they are also members of the animal
kingdom a noble heritage in its own right.
satrers believe that we must harmonize ourselves with nature again if we are to ever survive
on this planet. To us, the everyday aspects of nature are sacred, just as they were to our ancient
ancestors. The rising of the sun. The coming of wind, rain and storm. The beauty of the forest,
mountains, hills and plain. The coming and going of the seasons... All of these things have very
deep meaning to us just as they did to our ancestors.
Why is satr so appealing to me personally?
Well, to begin with, being a Lithuanian, I view satr as the natural spiritual expression of
people of European race. It is a religion that sprang from unique evolution and experiences of
our ancestors, and therefore most in line with our, their descendents, spiritual needs.
As it had already been mentioned earlier, the revival of the indigenous Lithuanian ethnic religion
today is called Romuva. It already has several thousand followers in Lithuania itself and among
Lithuanians living abroad. I am one of them, of course, although I dont have a possibility now to
become a member of Kindred because I live so far from Lithuania. While visiting Lithuania in
year 2002, I actually took part in some pagan rituals and celebrations of Romuva.
Romuva was the name of the most important sanctuary of the Baltic tribe of Prussians, which
was destroyed by crusaders in the XIII century. Historically, the Prussian temple of Romuva was

one of the last important European Pagan sanctuaries. Apart from this Romuva, there were
countless local sanctuaries, which thrived in the wide Baltic region.
It is just the same today the idea of Romuva remains in the consciousness of the Baltic
cultures. Romuva is the Baltic faith. The word by itself means serenity, peace, harmony,
tenderness, and beauty. These are our most cherished values. Romuva is a religion of life and
harmony. The premises of Lithuanian Paganism include respect for the ancestors, the sacredness
of nature, and the search for harmony.
The Baltic faith does not negate other religions and gods, but emphasizes the sacredness of
nature first and foremost. The core of the faith is harmony or darna. First, darna aspires to inner
harmony: people at peace with themselves. Second, it endeavors to create harmony at home and
in the community. Third, it pursues harmony with the ancestors. Finally, it quests for harmony
with the universe, i.e. with life and with the divinities.
Many Lithuanians today accept Lithuanian Pagans and their festivals as something natural and
folkloric. In spite of their current professed Christianity, Lithuanians are staunchly proud of their
Pagan past. When asked about religion, they always boast that they were the last Pagans of
Europe to be Christianized.
Not only Lithuanians, but many European people question religious things more today than they
ever did in the past and they have realized that Christianity doesnt strike that internal spiritual
chord that satr does. In past generations many Europeans considered themselves Christians
simply because their parents did so too even if they never went to church, never read the
Bible, or practiced the religion in any way whatsoever. It had become one of those traditions that
everyone did without questioning why or even thinking about. Things are so different now,
though. People now question traditions and many Europeans have found that their spiritual needs
were not being fulfilled by Christianity which is alien to their ancestral traditions. Some searched
other faiths such as Hinduism, Buddhism, or other eastern religions. Others went New Age or
began fancying themselves and started exploring some indigenous religions of far-away lands.
But myself I just looked to our own European past and this led me to exploring satr. The
choosing of satr was more of a reaction than an action to me. Its in my blood. Its the best
religion for me.
In short, I can say that satr can lead anyone of our people (and primarily the youth) to
understanding and asserting our own blood-rooted moral values, to unashamedly represent and
protect our European identity.
People without an understanding of their origins are doomed to perish just like a tree whose
connection to its roots are severed. For this understanding to be possible, the European people
today have to recover, confront and embrace the spiritual roots that have been forced
underground, and put in the shadow of the cross for a thousand years.
Therefore, the idea behind satr is the reconstruction and the return to our roots and to what is
real, healthy and constructive for each man and woman of European descent and their culture.
satr should be seen as the fight to recreate our pagan ancestors view of life, values, morals
and environmental perception. The goal of satr is to build on the positive characteristics of our

predecessors, who in the obscurity of a thousand years of Judeo-Christianity were systematically


suppressed.
When the peoples soul the Folk soul is being oppressed and enslaved by alien values and
compulsory adherence to an unnatural pattern of life, it will inevitably yield inner degradation
and moral dissolution. And, for over a thousand years, our people have been subjected to an alien
religion that is as misanthropic and infertile as the deserts of the Middle East from which it
originated. The dogma of the oppressor religion is in diametric opposition to our own instinctive
European human nature. Through submission to this spiritual decay, people thereby oppress their
own folkish identity. The consequences of this are catastrophic.
To let the ancient fire within fade out will only result in weakening your spirit and the spirit of
the folk around you as well. That flame which burns high in the hearts of the true folk is the very
essence of our peoples spirit.
satr is the spiritual path of our ancestors, and as such it should be again our true European
religion. satr mission today is to spearhead the revival of militant Folk consciousness. satr
creed is inscribed in our European blood. satrers believe that the tide of history can only be
turned by the efforts of a heroic people prepared to wage spiritual war against decadence and
decline. They strive to give back to the peoples of Europe pride in their identity and a renewed
sense of tribal kinship.
In the times of the Christian missionary work in the North the hammer amulet (Thors hammer
Mjllnir) was the sign of protest by which people showed that they were still true to the old gods.
Today this hammer sign is shown again as a sign of pride in the beliefs of our ancestors and
as a sign of the new strength of the Old Ways!
If after reading this introduction of mine you would like to learn more about satr, then first
please explore all the links to other websites where you will find, no doubt, much more
information on the Gods and the Heathen way of life. Maybe youll find a few useful sites, and
then you can simply surf further from there.
This introduction to satr I composed with good deal of help from my father, and we used
materials from many other websites that I now made links to. However, it must be said that I did
not (and will not) make a link to any site which belongs to the so-called Heathens Against
Hate network. Those, in my opinion, are nothing but just a pathetic bunch of fakes.
Our heathen ancestors did hate their enemies and they did fight against their enemies. Hate is the
virtue that separates human from the beasts. The ancient Norse were fearless warriors showing
no mercy towards their enemies and absolutely not proselytizing their faith unto other races.
In our modern times, youth are brainwashed at a very young age to forgive, accept, tolerate and
love without restrictions or discrimination. That is NOT the way of the ancient pagan warrior.
For it is not in the nature of a human being to love and tolerate in the measure that it
becomes a weakness to himself and thus reflects on his folk. Love, tolerance, acceptance and
forgiveness are good, but one must be selective to whom one applies these values.
There are many examples of self-proclaimed pagans today who have condemned traditional
approach to the ancient Heathen traditions. Some even go as far as to accept Christians within

their kindred. Certain groups advocate all-including tolerance and try to portray paganism as
just some kind of nature worshipping hippie religion. That is the way of Wicca, the
neo-pseudo-pagan movement filled with crazy drug addicts believing that walking bare foot in
the woods makes them one with nature and their hallucinogenic drugs help them to
communicate with pixies, elves, boggles, or whatever else...
This is why a real satrers prefer to be called Heathen rather than Pagan because it lets them
differentiate themselves from the mass of the so-called Neopagans and Wiccans.

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