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RE: Vedr. [evola_as_he_is] Amazons & Cynocephalism - Myths of the Dog-Man

From the same book -

'The Icelandic Eddas name Hundingr as the king of Hundland, "Dog-land";
the pre-tenth-century Anglo-Saxon Widsith mentions the Hundingar as a
dog-headed people; while the "werewolf" (ulfhednar) military
brotherhoods of the Germanic tribes elsewhere fought alongside
"half-dogs" (halfhundingas).'

'A second mythic leitmotiv that contributed to western traditions of the
Cynocephali is the lycanthropos: the wolfman or werewolf. This
creature's origin apparently derives from a social (or antisocial)
phenomenon. From time immemorial martial brotherhoods existed among the
(Indo-European) Greeks, Scythians, Persians, Dacians, Celts, and Germans
in which initiates magically assumed lupine features. These
brotherhoods, which were dreaded for their savage fury and their
practice of sorcery, reappear, under different guises, throughout the
entire span of Indo-European history and mythology, from the foundation
myths of Rome and Persia, through the writings of Suetonius, Virgil,
Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Snorri Sturlusen, down to Hollywood B-movies
of the present century.'

'Turner goes on to locate such uses of the monstrous in the broader
perspective of the liminal in general. During rites of passage, the
initiate is forced to reflect on a natural and cultural world whose
givens he had taken for granted. Such reflection renders the world at
once more strange and more immediate. Thus the communication of sacra
that occurs in these initiations has phases: the reduction of culture
into recognized components; the recombination in ways that make sense in
the new state into which the neophyte will enter.'

DGW does not seem to elucidate in any great depth on the Teutonic or
Nordic Traditions, which is unsurprising as he is a specialist on Indian
and Asian material - most of the material from which he is drawing these
conclusions is either from Hindu or Chinese sources. In regards to the
few lines (this is all of them) he seems to be connecting it to more a
ritual process than to one of significance to caste.

-----Original Message-----
From: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Widar Wulfarson
Sent: Monday, 3 April 2006 8:04 a.m.
To: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Vedr. [evola_as_he_is] Amazons & Cynocephalism - Myths of the
Dog-Man

Swasti!

I want to confine myself in commenting only one
remark, without making any statement about the
correctness of other points.

> 'Following Adam of Bremen, the theme of male
> Cyncophali cohabiting with Amazon women would become
a constant in the medieval geography and
> cartography of northern Europeans [...] Adam's
> amazing account, which brings together nearly all of
the Western lore of the Cynocephali into a
> single confused mass, is innovative inasmuch as it
> suggests that the male offspring of the gynecocratic
Amazons were the Cynocephali'. P61

Adam's of Bremen assertion is thought as a diatribe
against the indigenous German faith, in which the
"ulfhednar" (wolf-skins) played an important role as
members of Maennerbuende dedicated to Wotan.
They wore wolf costumes or wolf masks and were also
called "Wotan's dogs".

Harigastiz






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