Paganism Explained, Part II: Little Red Riding Hood & Jack and the Beanstalk

by Varg Vikernes, Marie Cachet

The second book in the series, this time we dissect a few fairy tales and show you how similar they are to our mythology. 92 pages. Witness our European heritage be revived.

Genres: Mythology, Paganism

92 pages, Paperback

Published December 8, 2017

About the author

Varg Vikernes is a Norwegian musician. In 1991 Vikernes conceived the one-man music project Burzum, which quickly became popular within the early Norwegian black metal scene. In Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, director Sam Dunn described Vikernes as "the most notorious metal musician of all time".

"After creating in the course of four early albums an impressive body of art that essentially ended black metal as it was by raising the bar beyond what others could easily participate in, Vikernes was imprisoned for sixteen years for his alleged role in church arson and murder. During the time he was in prison, he put out two more impressive keyboard-based albums and several books’ worth of writings before falling silent around the turn of the millennium." (source: www.deathmetal.org)

Since then and after his release in 2009, he has authored several writings on Nordic/Germanic neopaganism and European nationalism from a primitivist and naturalist stance focused on cultural values in the community and family.

Reviews

[S.M. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Every story has the same interpretation for this woman. Who is that obsessed with pregnancy damn.

[Alan · Rating 1 out of 5]

¿Cómo des-leo esto? Ayúdame, dios de Abraham ._.

Comenzamos con bastas versiones de relatos conocidos, sin exceptuar la aparición de sus versiones más gore y fieles. La mayeutica para la interpretación pagana es en este caso...

> «Here we have a clear symbol of the placenta.»

Ahora entiendo de dónde viene el placenta-meme que existe al rededor de Varg. Su razón es que se recurre a la burla para reemplazar la pena.

Supongo que expone demasiado como el neopaganismo está lejos del paganismo, y que sus seguidores están formando una religión en la que pueden creer. Seguidores modernizados. Esa sí es una tragedia respecto al ancestro europeo.

Al menos estimula la creatividad intentando comprender las interpretaciones de los cuentos. Pero no aporta nada, ninguna idea, al marco formado ya en la serie.

[Calicolex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Small book.

[Joshua · Rating 5 out of 5]

Varg and his wife make an excellent analysis of paganism and propose a meaning to the myths without falling into new age claptrap. The entire series is excellent.

[Bobby Daugherty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Varg explains how folk tales were used to teach children to have a subconscious appreciation of the world around them and to accept that while there are reasons for everything the reasons are often better understood with effort.