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[tamfana]

White People and Hexerei/Heathenism

"If the Ethnic European Folk cease to exist Asatru would likewise no longer exist. Let us be clear: by Ethnic European Folk we mean white people."

you have no idea how angry statements like these make me.

Asatru, Heathenism, Zauberei, Hexerei- are all modern terms to describe a contested folk paganism of Germanic areas. What so many seem to misunderstand is that just as land cannot be sanctioned to one skin color, neither can a practice.

It is unbelievably disrespectful to try to police our religion by race. It's as if some believe that they can control the gods, the land, or the spirits. We are all guests in their house. We are cherished not because of color but because we are created by the gods.

In the stories of our souls, we are knit together and sewn by the gods. A part of them remains inside of us. The Gods do not create just one group of people, but all people. Imagine trying to claim that the gods only love your ingroup! it's audacious. The gods create all, the gods can call upon anyone, they gods rule whom they see fit. You do not speak for the gods! You do not get to set rules for the gods! You are not their parent, you are their devotee. You listen to them, obey them- who are you to claim ownership over deities?

'Folk' is a broad term. I am from America, I was born in Minnesota. I am a Minnesotan, but I'm also German and Irish in ancestry. In this, my 'folk' is American, and German, and Irish. I claim all three. I find kinship with people from all of these places, I share day-to-day practices with all these people, I share experiences with these people, food, dance, belief, culture. A folk is just a group of people that share something. In that, all practitioners are folk with each other, because we share belief.

If a man was born in Germany to Turkish parents, but was raised in germany, he is German. He can identify with that culture. But, he can also interact with Turkish culture, because his parents are Turkish, and he shares experiences and stories and perspectives with them. By that same logic, if a Black woman is called to Hexerei, she is allowed to practice it. If her values align, if she shares common practices with other hexe, if she calls herself a Hexe? that's a Hexe.

In Anthropology, there's a concept of Cultural Exchange. In the terms of Globalization, we are liable to sharing many cultures. In this, so long as information about Hexerei or Asatru is available globally, the practitioners of it will be diverse. Trying to assert that only white people carry knowledge of Hexerei or Nordic/Germanic beliefs is unbelievably ignorant.

White European Folk did not invent the idea of Germanic or Norse Paganism. We cannot possibly know for sure that every person in every varied, vast, far spread Germanic/Norse tribe was white. How far back would we go? How many people would you consider Germanic or Norse? It's circular to assert that Asatru belongs to white people because only white people practiced Asatru. You don't know that!

Even if- EVEN IF- you could somehow confirm that white people invented Asatru and all asatruars were white- paganism is too small a world to be excluding anyone. If you want more temples, if you want better treatment, if you want more rights, stop infighting. Imagine being so fucking stupid that instead of being a Mogmaxxing Chad who welcomes new Asatruars you decide that you'd rather use your agarthan jellybrain negative canthal tilt cumstain complexion to further racism in the big 2025

TLDR: Beware the Asatru Folk Assembly, they are white supremacists.