The Well of Remembrance

Part One - The Indo-European and Nordic-Germanic Peoples 1. Migrations and Invasions of the Indo-Europeans Origins of the Indo-Europeans The Descendants of the Kurgan Invaders in Europe The Indo-European Legacy 2. The Religion and Worldview of the Indo-Europeans Animism, Shamanism, and Paganism Changing Conceptions of Death and the Afterlife The Destruction of the Old Religion 3. Ancient Germanic Society Patriarchy The Family, the Clan, and the Tribe From Endogamy to Exogamy 4. Wodan's Warriors and the Heroic Mystique Berserker Fury and the Rituals of Battle Women in War and the Valkyrie Battle Maidens The Transformed Berserkers 5. Sacred Runes and Mythic Poetry Runes and Divination The Edda: Songs and Visions of the Elder Mothers Chronology Part Two - Nordic-Germanic Myths and their Meaning for Our Time 6. Odin and the Aesir Sky Gods Odin the Wandering Truth-Seeker Other Aesir Gods: Tyr, Thor, Balder, and Loki 7. The New Berserkers - Norbert Mayer 8. Freyja and the Vanir Earth Deities Freyja: Goddess of Earth, Sexuality, and Magic Other Vanir Deities: Njörd and Freyr Gullveig and the Origins of War 9. Visions of the Fourfold Goddess - Bärbel Kreidt 10. Odin's Self-Sacrifice and the Tree of Worlds Odin's Self-Sacrifice The Tree of Nine Worlds Dwarves, Elves, Giants, and Gods in the Twentieth Century 11. The Well of Remembrance and the Knowledge of the Ancestors The Three Norns Mimir's Well and the One-Eyed God The Revenge of the Vanir and Mimir's Head 12. Rituals of Reconciliation and the Quest for the Mead of Inspiration The Reconciliation Ritual and Kvasir's Blood Twentieth-Century Rituals of Reconciliation Loss and Recovery of the Mead of Inspiration 13. The Twilight of the Sky Gods and New Dawn of the Earth Goddess The Völva's Vision of the Ragnarök Cataclysmic Earth Changes The Loosened Monsters and the Final Battle Defeat and Return of the Pagan Deities