Author’s Note: As I currently comprehend, Viking history comprises two kingdoms that separated from the Aser people I discuss herein. There are both similarities to and differences from those two kingdoms as well as similarities to and differences from the Aser people within whom the Vikings originated. (That was clunky, I know.) In this article, I refer to The Bock Saga descriptions of the Viking story as it relates to the Aser family and to the importance of revealing truth.
According to The Bock Saga, until a little over 50 million years ago, the Earth existed as a perfectly harmonized paradise. It was a peaceful place filled with abundant large fruits and vegetables always ripe for the picking because the sun constantly shined directly overhead at the North Pole which pointed to the North Star and the knowledge of the All-Father. The notion of "scarcity" did not exist! Animals were part of the sacredness of life — not sources of food.
People there, known as the Aser (and nearby Vaner), were peaceable; they sang, danced, and created, and they carefully planned their families and organized their communities in harmony with Mother Nature and the Universe. The landmass in the northermost Ringland, around the North Pole, was known as Odenma. The center was called Hel, what we now know as Helsinki, Finland. The "Paradiset" in Odenma went on for many millennia.
But then, a cataclysm rocked the Earth; it is known as the First Ragnarök. This sudden, massive event shifted the planet approximately 23 degrees off kilter (some say 23.5 degrees)*, making the North Pole no longer in alignment with the North Star. The entirety of Earth’s lands and waters shifted greatly, causing never-before-seen upheavals. The water permanently flooded many areas ("Hel-sink-i"), and much of went into the atmosphere froze and came down in sheets of ice for three months. Most people in the Ringland of Odenma were killed: These are the areas we now know of as northern Europe (including Scandinavia to the far north), Russia, and North America.
"By a stroke of Öde (fate), Odenma remained ice-free, but was surrounded by walls of ice reaching kilometers high into the sky. The Saga calls this the Altlandis period." In root language, Altlandis means "all the land is ice."
The First Ragnarök also caused a separation of peoples in every Ringland throughout the world due to newly formed geographic impasses such as mountain ranges, gorges, and large bodies of water. Outside of Odenma and its Ringland, each new group of people retained their inner wisdom from the All-Father but there evolved distinctions between groups because of their new surroundings and concomitantly necessary lifestyles. These groups of people populated places we know now as India, Africa, Crete, and others to the south and east.
Despite Altlandis being covered in multiple meters of ice, a life-affirming phenomenon of the Ragnarök occurred.
"The Saga explains that the warm Gulf Stream waters moved rapidly [north and east] via the Netherlands, northern Germany, and finally into the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. It curled around itself at the end, where Petersburg is now, and continued over South Sweden and towards Norway."
These areas, warmed by the constant temperature of the salt water, remained unfrozen, even though the region at large was surrounded by ice walls many miles thick.
A few people, animals, and plants survived but all organic life was forced to adapt to a radically new environment. Because Odenma was now cast into day and night with extreme temperature changes, the people needed to make and wear clothing. Mother Nature no longer naturally provided fruits and vegetables, and as such, they had to learn to grow crops of simple grains, following seasonal schedules. While these crops grew, the people learned to hunt, slaughter, and to breed land animals, to steal the seafood and freshwater fish, and to hunt and kill birds, all to supplement their nutritional and energy needs.
The new era of life on Earth disrupted the internal moral code and inalienable rights of humans with extreme constraints and exigencies that required people and all life to struggle. "Scarcity," "illness," and "death" as we now know it became realities for the first time in human history.
Somehow, life did go on, well enough to repopulate Earth despite the strange, rugged terrain, never-before-experienced extreme weather, and loss of direct connection with the All-Father (North Star).
And then, a Second Ragnarök came "10,034 years ago (as counted from 2018 [when The Bock Saga was first written after eons of oral transmission] on July 24 and destroyed Odenma along with all its inhabitants. Only 30 people were able to escape…." They hid during this Ice Age in deep caves for three months with the animals, plants, and food they had brought with them on their large boat. Once again, they began to procreate, and when the ice began to melt under the warmth of the sun, they were able to grow food and other plants, to build shelters, and to create tools and other necessities.
This re-population would last several thousand years, during which most of Europe had been converted to Christianity. But the people of Odenma (Finland, expanded into Scandinavia) remained essentially non-religious and self-sustaining. During this time, Christianity had become an extremely violent, expansionist religion based on coercion, and the Pope in Rome and his loyal leaders throughout Europe could not stand the notion of "free" people. In order to manipulate the minds of devotees, the church characterized the Aser people and their neighboring Vaner people as demonic heathens, and vilified Hel ("Hell") as a place of constant evil and torture. These church-sponsored "missions" terrorized the Aser and Vaner over millennia, raping and kidnapping people to be sold into slavery, pillaging and razing communities, slaughtering animals, and destroying densely forested lands: Anything to decimate these people who refused to even feign becoming Christian.
The Bock Saga tells briefly how certain families who had split off from the Aser organized and crowned themselves the "Vi-Kings" to not only defend their land, people, possessions, and way of life from the waves of war-making by the church and its secular gang members, but to eventually strike back against the church. The Vikings trained as ruthless warriors, and they attacked England in 789AD. They raided, plundered, and burned churches and monasteries in England. These raids of revenge went on, even while many other Scandinavians were being violently coerced into Christianity just to stay alive.
In 1050AD, the Pope and two powerful leaders — King Anund Helbrennere and a Catholic Bishop — secretly organized a mercenary Helvetian army, which gathered in northern Germany. The mission: Raze Odemna to the ground, kill all the people, and steal the treasures.
Back in Odenma, the Vikings had already separated from the Aser, and were located mainly in Norway. The Aser army of this era was highly trained but for ritualistic purposes only, not for either offense or defense. So without the intense fighting power of the Vikings, Odenma was entirely unprepared for the massive onslaught by the Catholic-hired mercenary soldiers.
This marked the Third Ragnarök, which destroyed Odenma yet again, this time with the church turning Hel into the Hell they had literally written about in the Bible. To maintain the secret of the mission — so that even most Scandinavians as well as the world would not know the real history — the Catholics poisoned Anund Helbrennere to be certain that he wouldn’t expose the truth while bragging about his victory.
So there you have it. Tell me, dear readers: Is this story of the Vikings different from the one you read about in school "history" books? It surely differs from what I was told.
And this is precisely why it matters: Because we were lied to.
The Catholic Church and government leaders have battled to maintain a long, vested interest in getting us to believe that the Vikings were rotten to the core, and that they raped, pillaged, and plundered for fun and profit. The self-proclaimed church and government “leaders” would have everyone believe that the Vikings were demon-worshiping heathens, an infestation on Earth and thus a detriment to humanity.
The truth is that the Vikings didn’t even exist in name or function until the church began murdering their people and animals, destroying their lands, and stealing their possessions simply because they refused to give up their life-affirming ways and convert to Christianity. These wise, strong people saw the crusades for what they were: An attempt to force people — through fear and brutality — into believing in a religion that went against everything they had ever known about living in harmony with the Earth and each other. When the Church nearly destroyed the Vikings, they fought back. The Church didn’t like that, so they concocted a story, projecting their own destructive, death-cult desires onto the Vikings. It is a tale that seems to not only be based on fear, it instills fear in believers and leads them to seek false safety, security, and convenience from gurus, groups, guilds, and governments.
And if they lied to everyone about the Vikings, why wouldn’t they feel free to lie to us about anyone or anything else?
Furthermore, if they convinced people that the Vikings were a blight on Earth, how does that message relate to people today who question “authority”? To people who refuse to “go along to get along.” To people who fight against the homogenization of culture, against “the collective” — because they remember their divine essence of freedom.
So the moral of my story is:
Be like the Vikings. Be courageous. Be vigilant. Be ready to fight for your life, for your inalienable rights, for your family and all you have toiled to create. Refuse to live in fear. Refuse to allow anyone who poses as an "authority" to destroy your life or to demonize you. Speak up for truth and love and freedom. Act righteously. Life is for the living.
*The number 23.5 comes up in some interesting ways and places throughout history, and it is my intention to share my research findings and musings on it soon.
There's some weird stuff in the Bock Saga, got a copy of it on my bookshelf.
I'm reminded of this story of a "female" viking (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/02/viking-woman-warrior-face-reconstruction-national-geographic-documentary) where the skull they've pictured is clearly male. Most of the public won't be able to distinguish that though, so they'll believe that BS story. This is how history gets rewritten to fit an agenda.
Interesting but I see no sources.
There is a Hel Peninsula in the north of Poland btw. It's kind of raw, sandy unpopulated beaches. And isn't Helsinki built on marsh like St Petersburg is, which would explain the 'sink' bit.