So Here There Be Dragons! (Part II)

The essay below is the second in a series by our English correspondent Seneca III. Previously: Part 1.

So Here There Be Dragons!

by Seneca III

Part II — Ragnarök, männerbunden, eudemia and eufemia

“The centre of the Vikings’ cosmos was the ash tree Yggdrasil, growing out of the Well of Urd. Yggdrasil holds the Nine Worlds, home of gods, man and all spiritual beings. The gods live in Asgard and Vanaheim and humans inhabit Midgard. Giants live in Jotunheim, elves in Alfheim and dwarves in Svartalfheim. Another is the primordial world of ice, Niflheim, while Muspelheim is the world of fire. The last world comprises Hel, the land of the dead, ruled by the goddess Hel. —From “An Overview of the Culture and History of the Viking Age

“It is not that trash accumulates in human cities — it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.” — Don Colachio

Ragnarök

In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of events, including a great battle, foretold to lead to the death of a number of great figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), natural disasters and the submersion of the world in water. After these events, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors.

In the Poetic Edda, the event is referred to as Ragnarök or Ragnarøkkr, old Norse for ‘“Fate of the Gods” or “Twilight of the Gods”. Wagner titled the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas Götterdämmerung, meaning “Twilight of the Gods” in German.

Männerbunden, eudemia and eufemia

In those peoples that are called ‘primitive’, but which most often represent only the degenerate and ensavaged remains of more ancient races and civilizations, the phenomenon of the ‘Männerbunden’ has often attracted the attention of observers.

In such peoples, the individual, to be considered as a merely natural being, is up to a certain age left to the family and especially to maternal care, under the feminine-maternal sign, beneath which these societies locate everything which has bearing for the material, physical side of existence. But at a given moment a change of state occurs. Special rites, which are called ‘rites of passage’ and which are often accompanied by a preliminary period of isolation and hard trials, bring about, according to a schema of ‘death and rebirth’, a new being, which alone can be considered a true man. Indeed, before this, the member of the group, no matter his age, is held to be a member of the women and children, indeed even of the animals. Once he has undergone his transformation, the individual is therefore united to the so-called ‘Männerbunden’. This society, having an initiatic (sacral) and warrior character, has the power of a group. Its right is to be differentiated in terms of its responsibility and its functions. It has the power of command. It has a structure similar to that of an ‘Order’.

With the epoch of the revolutions, there began a mighty assault against whatever could conserve the semblance of a ‘Mannerbünden’, proceeding so far as a complete inversion of values and ideals.

While in the last century [19th century] there was a tendency to derive the State from the institution of the family, a more modern current has rightly located the origin of sovereignty precisely in the phenomenon of a ‘Männerbunden’. The scheme which is now indicated effectively contains the fundamental elements which appropriately define every order, and specifically every political order, and which do so with a clarity that one would seek for in vain amidst the crumbling and degraded theories of our days on the origin of sovereignty. In that schema we encounter above all the idea of a virility in an eminent and spiritual sense, the quality of man as vir (as the Romans would say) and not as simple homo. To this is tied, as has been seen, a ‘break in level’, or a change in state; in its simplest expression, it is the detachment from the sensible, vegetative, physical state. Then there is the idea of a specific unity, much different from any other of ‘naturalistic’ character (as the family, the simple ‘people’, etc.). Finally, there is the idea of power as something connected essentially with this higher plane, so that originally it was recognized as possessing the character of a force from on high, of a ‘sacred power’ (auctoritas and with it imperium in the ancient Roman idea).

Therefore, we can with good right regard all of these matters as ‘constants’, that is, basic ideas which, in very different applications, formulations and derivations, appear recurrently in every major political organization of the past. On account of the processes of deconsecration, of rationalization and of materialization, which have grown ever more accentuated in the course of the times, these original meanings were forced to conceal themselves and to recede. But this remains ever unchanged: where these meanings have been totally obliterated, so that they no longer exist even in a transposed and debilitated form, without any longer even a background of initiatic or sacral character, there no longer exists a true State; every concept has been lost which, in an eminent and traditional sense, makes political reality, in its specific dignity and difference with respect to all the other spheres of existence and, in particular, with respect to all that which has an exclusively economic or ‘social’ character.

With the epoch of the revolutions, there began, in Europe, a mighty assault against whatever could conserve the semblance of a ‘Männerbunden’, which is to say, an assault against the very political principle itself, against the principle of every true sovereignty, proceeding so far as a complete inversion of values and ideals. Indeed, in one form or another the societarian ideologies have reigned for some time now — ideologies which represent simply the anti-State, and also a kind of protest against the virile principle on behalf of all that which, for its connection to the simply physical life of a society, and according to the aforementioned view of the origins, has an analogously ‘feminine’ and promiscuous character. While for the ‘Männerbunden’ honour, battle and dominion are values, for the simple ‘society’, on the other hand, peace, the economy, material well-being, the naturalistic life of the instincts and of the sentiments, and petty security are values: and, at their limit, hedonism and eudaimonism, as against heroism, rank and aristocracy…

[Julius Evola: The Crisis of Modern Society]

In my youth, joining the brotherhood of the military was a rite of passage, an entry into Männerbunden. Now, ‘military’, in the full meaning of that word, is slowly being hollowed out by the enforced entry and the affirmative-actioned fast-track promotion of women, racial minorities — particularly Muslims despite their being acolytes of a belief system dedicated to the subjugation or extermination of Judeo-Christians — and every possible sexual, ideological and moral deviant imaginable, most of them being unsuited for the purpose to which they are assigned, the defence of the realm. In the West our Nation States are in dire jeopardy.

To conclude Part II, I would point out that we hear much these days about ‘barbarians at the gate, yet I wonder if the roles are reversed now, and many are not nearly as civil or civilized as they would like to think. Perhaps the degenerates who ‘rule’ us are not the barbarians at the gate but rather the rotting corpse of a decayed civilization and who have too long been behind the gates and have become the entrenched establishment, not its enemy. Perhaps we few who refuse to enter that antithetic moral and cultural morgue are now the barbarians, a determined cohort imbued with a newly resurgent vigour and determination, the “Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders[1] that followed, indeed initiated, the fall and restoration of Imperial Rome.

1.   The Restoration of Rome — Peter Heather, Pan Macmillan, 2013. ISBN978-0-230-70015-4
 

In the ‘Nicomachean Ethics’, Aristotle proposed that humans are social, rational animals that seek to “live well.” He proposed a system of ethics designed to help us reach ‘eudaimonia’, a word that means living well or flourishing, which is reached by living virtuously and building up your character traits until you don’t even have to think about your choices before making the right one. Such a person will be happy, but not in the same way as a hedonistic person. They will strive for self-improvement and will live their lives to the fullest. They will be the kind of person that others want to be like. Above all else, they will flourish.

Complementary to this state of mind is ‘eufemia’, meaning “well-spoken”, “to speak well” or “to use words of good omen”, something sadly lacking in many parts of our culture today, particularly if one is (foolishly) attempting to indulge in rational discourse with the disciples of St. Greta of Poobucket, the manic, hormonally self-castrated harridans of the feminist conclave or the weird denizens of the LGBTXXX zoo. And when it comes to attempting the same with the self-entitled racist BAME collective and the murderous ‘Slaves of Allah’, don’t even try; it’s like travelling back in time to the Mesolithic era.

The last world comprises Hel, the land of the dead, ruled by the goddess Hel.” I would moot that the following bullet points illustrate that the modern Hel is the globalist world, and it has given us — this:

  • A society in which you are investigated ‘for your thinking’ when you openly question whether men can ‘be’ women and in which heteronormativity is demonised; that society is corrupted beyond redemption.
  • A society in which you are arrested for detaining a man who molests your daughter in public because the assailant belongs to a protected racial group who cannot be prosecuted in order to preserve ‘peace in the community’ is corrupted beyond redemption.
  • A society in which tens of thousands of organised sexual crimes against children go knowingly unpunished to avoid the terrible charge of racism is corrupted beyond redemption.
  • A society in which it is bigoted to object to having ageing men dressed as women “twerk” to pre-school children in a public library is corrupted beyond redemption.
  • A society in which basic observations of reality are forbidden by the use of the magic words — “racism”, “phobia” , “sexism” and “intersectionality” etc. is a corrupted beyond redemption.
  • A society in which you can be socially and financially ruined for speaking the truth out loud is corrupted beyond redemption.
  • A society in which the shameful and disgusting are celebrated as virtues is corrupted beyond redemption.
  • A society in which an invented grievance or a ‘race card’ is a good career move is corrupted beyond redemption.
  • A society that penalises the talented, the diligent, the hard-working and the bright in the name of “diversity” and “affirmative action” is corrupted and lost beyond redemption.

Let us be done with it.

“There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.” — H.L. Mencken

— Seneca III, now locked down in a wintry Middle England at the end of a troubling decade in this the year of our Lord 2020.

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8 thoughts on “So Here There Be Dragons! (Part II)

  1. that degenerate Cressida Dick looks like she’s happy being in a [sump] like London.

  2. given Seneca’s nine None’s, he could have very well described Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham interceded for the cities but there wasn’t much worth saving, just a Lot. At least the Lord hauled him out of there before turning the water in the air into fire (hydrogen and oxygen with a lit match, and the archeological records prove it). So we wait and pray that we will be hauled out before there is Hel to pay.

  3. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

    => here the God of the Bible says that there is “more of him than only one person” and that he will create man also as “more than one person”.

    “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

    => In the next verse the God of the Bible says that “he” is made in the image of God, and to make it happen = he made him a “female” – because God is a sort of “family hierarchy”

    => Long story short: They are attacking men because men represent the image of God. If they manage to put females to rule over men – they destroy the God given hierarchy, and that is what all the good satanists want.

    Look how well it works for all those woke movies and companies, who deny this reality.

    PS: Holy spirit is the feminine “part of God” – the gender pronoun was lost when they translated it to Greek – where “spirit” is a neutral word.

    • Holy Spirit! Batman!
      The Lord caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep (so he wouldn’t feel any pain) and removed a rib from him and used that rib to create Eve. So the woman will always be at our side to give us a “ribbing” when we deserve it.

  4. Well, I know I still inhabit a realm that isn’t Hel yet. If I was forced to have to endure country music blasted into my eardrums 24-7 while trying to fend off hordes of feral Somali neighbors then I would know I was truly in Hel.

    • Those bloody skinnies don’t dare try to live or start their sub human ways in my part of the Great White Nort, for they know better and fear us here, as they should.

    • I live in Nashville, country music center and I hate the modern day rock that comes out of our city just as much as I despise rap. Country music died many years ago.

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