TYR JOURNAL EDITION

Research on a collaborative project brought me the excellent news that Volume 1 of "TYR : Myth-Culture-Tradition" is now widely available. For quite some time, we could easily get the next four volumes of this semi-yearly journal, but Volume One was unobtainable. So I'm featuring a reviewing context of the purpose and trajectory of the series that was well-documented in volume one. Tyr JOURNAL (vol 1) is available from many websites and here at the current publishers main page. https://arcanaeuropamedia.com/collections/journal/products/tyr-myth-culture-tradition-vol-1

I don't think they will mind if I state some of the mission of this worthwhile publication.

Arcana Europa is the publisher.

“TYR -: MYTH - CULTURE - TRADITION

TYR IS NAMED FOR THE GERMANIC SKY GOD, THE GUARDIAN OF TRANSCENDENT AND ETERNAL ORDER.

Published annually, TYR celebrates the traditional myths, culture, and social institutions of pre-Christian, pre-modern Europe. It includes in-depth, original articles, interviews, translations of essential works by radical traditionalist and anti-modern thinkers, as well as extensive reviews of books, films, music, and the arts.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A RADICAL TRADITIONALIST?

It means to reject the modern, materialist reign of "quantity over quality," the absence of any meaningful spiritual values, environmental devastation, the mechanization and over-specialization of urban life, and the imperialism of corporate mono-culture, with its vulgar "values" of progress and efficiency. It means to yearn for the small, homogeneous tribal societies that flourished before Christianity -- societies in which every aspect of life was integrated into a holistic system.

WHAT WE REPRESENT:

Resacralization of the world versus materialism; folk/traditional culture versus mass culture; natural social order versus an artificial hierarchy based on wealth; the tribal community versus the nation-state; stewardship of the earth versus the "maximization of resources"; a harmonious relationship between men and women versus the "war between the sexes"; handicrafts and artisanship versus Industrial mass-production.

IN THIS ISSUE:

STEPHEN EDRED FLOWERS on "Integral Culture"; JOSCELYN GODWIN on the Italian esotericist JULIUS EVOLA; French philosopher ALAIN DE BENOIST's interview with "new comparative mythologist" GEORGES DUMEZIL; NIGEL PENNICK on the "Spiritual Arts and Crafts"; STEVE POLLINGTON on the Germanic war god Woden; MICHAEL MOYNIHAN on divine traces in the Nibelungenlied; COLLIN CLEARY on the anti-modern television series The Prisoner; JOSHUA BUCKLEY'S interview with IAN READ of the English heathen music group FIRE + ICE, and much more.”

Tyr is important enough to be the title of the best Radical Traditionalist publication. There have been five issues so far with quality that is without equal.

Here is some of my research project for a card set illustrated by a brilliant artist.

Tyr is known as the one-handed god who sacrificed his arm in the jaws of the Fenris wolf. When Fenris had become dangerous the gods weaved a magic binding but the wolf would not let them approach because he suspected something. To reassure Fenris, Tyr volunteered to place his arm within the jaws of the wily wolf to prove there was nothing amiss. Fenris bit off the arm of Tyr.

A premier god of self-sacrifice for a greater order, the god of the Tir rune represents order, law, and sacrifice for the greater good.

Tyr is the bringer of victory in war. Justice as the power of right rather than the legal documents of legislation. The god of justice is a god of nature and right order.

TIR is the first rune of the third Aett. The name of the associated god is Tir and Tiwaz in England and TYR in the Norse tales.

The Anglo Saxon rune is TIW. It is a star that keeps faith well.

In the Elder Futhark, tiwaz is the rune name which is also cognate with the god Tiw.

Tyr is the bringer of victory in war. Justice as the power of right rather than the legal documents of legislation. The god of justice is a god of nature and right order.

In "Our Troth" edited by Kveldulf Gundarsson, Tyr is presented as a major Aesiric God. There seems to be an isnsistence that Tiw is a god of the Thing which is a formal meeting of the Folk to determine right action in society and consider all matters of law as applying to the social structure. There is a Rite of the seasonal Thing-Tide which is usually seen as happening in August.

His weapon is the spear and there are artifacts with the TIW rune.

In Sigrdrífumál, the valkyrie Sigrdrífa imparts to the hero Sigurd knowledge of various runic charms. One charm invokes the god Týr:

'You must know victory-runes

if you want to know victory. Carve them

into your sword's hilt, on the blade guards

and the blades, invoking Tyr's name twice.'

On the LIndholm Amulet there are a series of runes including the second line with a magical string of runes concluding in alu. The three consecutive Tiwaz runes as an invocation of the god Tiwaz. Here is a look at aspects of the Lindholm Amulet.

https://germaniccraft.blogspot.com/2018/06/personalized-formula-from-older.html

The Sky God. God of the Heavens. May be represented by the Irminsul. Order of Heaven and Earth. A look at the Irminsul representation of Divine Order is a separate study and there is a German reconstruction movement who call themselves Irminists.

In Latvia and other Baltic states the sky god is called Dievs although that can be a title for any god in general.

In the Proto-Germanic Elder Futhark the tiwaz rune coincides with the name of the associated god.

Tiw represents valor and courage. It is good for men of action to pray to him.

That concludes my text notes for the card set at the moment. But I want to reiterate the importance of the journal TYR : MYTH- CULTURE- TRADITION in our trajectory. That somewhat yearly journal is why so many of us became conversant in the works of Martin Heidegger, Julius Evola, Ernst Junger and other leading lights of our trajectory. The compilation of five volumes of TYR journal has been a heroic venture by authors and editors.

You have heroic valor.

Alan

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