[Background: Woden's Folk is a racist cult based on an "ancient prophecy" that is actually a piece of dialogue from Robin of Sherwood, a 1980s TV series]
It's funny how the central core of wyrd of our folkish faith is understood by us and never understood by the oh-so moral lefty arses.
Wyrd had me doing a random chain of searches via google and the ensuing linked topics last night.
The linked topic took me to the WF page on theRational Wankie site for the critique of all and sundry that the left don't like.
One thing they got all moist about on Rationalwiki was the usage the Hooded Man prophecy from the 80s Robin Hood.
Well all fair in a world that does not have a Northern Germanic faith that, as mentioned above, has wyrd at its core.
The left may well see nothing wrong with the pope getting revelation from the White Christ and then transmitting it to the faithful, so why is Wulf of WF picked out for seeing a revelation in the works of a person, priest or not, who just happens to write for a program.
As it is said, Wyrd goes where it must and if it needed to find an outlet via the pen of another then so be it.
Let's be honest here, putting diluted animal shite on the field you grow food crops on sounds disgusting if you don't understand the mechanism involved in the crop, so if you don't understand the web of wyrd then how can you judge the harvest of revelation and the field from which it came forth.
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Criticising a group for worshipping a television series isn't necessarily left-wing, you know. I'm sure you'll find plenty of conservatives who will agree that Woden's Folk are full of shit.
For what it's worth, here's the ancient 1980s prophecy in question:
"In the days of the Lion, spawned of the Devil’s brood, the Hooded Man shall come to the forest. There he will meet Herne the Hunter, Lord of the Trees, to be his son and do his bidding. The Powers of Light and Darkness shall be strong within him. And the guilty shall tremble."
Knowing positively nothing about this movement nor if I actually understood this right, granting benefit of the doubt, isn't he try to say that his magical mumbo-jumbo predates the tv series and happened to be written into it in the same way some esoteric part of another religion might be used for the plot of any show? I mean he offers no empirical counterargument to the claim, only a "rationalization", but... I don't know, it seems like these silly words are being misunderstood.
Is wyrd another term for woo?
I recall the TV show- amusing enough, but I grew to hate it because my roommate bought Clannad music and played it far too much.
Ah, you mean its all secret and stuff and you've got to be really clever to understand it and you're really clever and we aren't and that's why you are in your special club and we're not, so there, Nyah!
Good for you, skippy. You sit in your bedsit, polishing your, ever so authentic, ornate, reproduction battleaxe and wank over your forthcoming pasty white boy revolution fantasies and the rest of us get on with having lives.
"Well all fair in a world that does not have a Northern Germanic faith that, as mentioned above, has wyrd at its core"
Indeed. Least of all a TV adaptation of what was nothing more than a medieval folk tale spread by merchants - as an early form of advertising/P.R. - to boost business for the Dyers' Guild of Nottingham, the centre of the dyeing trade in England.
PROTIP; 'Lincoln Green ' is actually a corruption of the Old English Lincoln Graine which was the colour Red , not green.
Corruption. You get that a lot in the history of linguistics/etymology - as language evolves - o Essex campe. But then, you lot are too inferior , never mind 'Wy(e)ird', to figure that out.
Frankly, one can learn far more of [i]pre[/i]-Saxon mythology from "2000 AD"'s "Slaine" comics. At least it's creator Pat Mills had actually [i]done[/i] his research.
My only comment is from a farmers perspective.
"putting diluted animal shite on the field you grow food crops on sounds disgusting if you don't understand the mechanism involved in the crop,"
They didn't understand the underlying reason manure helped crops, they noticed things grew faster and larger around shit. Over time they continued the practice of speading it and seeing how well it worked, even shit spreading can be refined, it's the very basis of religions as well.
in a world that does not have a Northern Germanic faith
Considering you also think that Hitler was a reincarnation of Woden, I would say you don't a Northern Germanic faith either.
There's nothing so unusual in having a religion based on a TV series: Jediism and Matrixism both comes from film franchises.
And, uh, "wyrd" is a cognate of "weird."
so why is Wulf of WF picked out for seeing a revelation in the works of a person, priest or not, who just happens to write for a program.
Maybe because Woden's Folk is claiming it's an "ancient prophecy"? Besides, there are usually other descriptions for people who think their TVs are talking to them...
I only dimly remember Robin Hood , though I much preferred the camper Adventures of Robin Hood made in the forests of deepest Surrey in the 1950s. On the other hand, these guys remind me more of Catweazle...
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As I wrote in another thread about Woden’s Folk: If you base your “religion” on an ancient prophecy, it helps if it is actually ancient and/or a prophecy.
@Hasan:
Incidentally, Catweazle was from the same producer as Robin Of Sherwood.
@dumbo maybe: I think he's trying to claim that the show, or at least the part with the "prophecy", was divinely inspired (hey, it worked for the Babble, after all :P), but I could be misparsing him.
@rubber chicken
In the interests of balance, I suppose I should mention that, before the pasty white boys of Woden's Folk started spouting this rubbish, the inky black boys of the Nuwaubian cult were claiming that Yoda was real.
Yes, that Yoda.
Part of me wonders if, in setting up Woden's Folk, Wulf was making a deliberate attempt to match the stupidest element of black supremacy...
@Qazamir McSmarty Britches
To be fair, I'm not sure if he does believe that Hitler was Woden. Wotans Krieger does, but I don't think that belief is accepted by all members of Woden's Folk.
No idea what he's on about, but man, I loved that show. Every Robin Hood film/TV adaptation that came after was influenced by that show.
It was so epic that its blooper reels used more film than actual episodes.
Sorry, I know, off topic. Um... bad racists, don't look for revelation in the blessed works of Richard Carpenter.
This is almost as funny as the lady who based an entire "ancient religion" around the "Vampire: the Masquerade" tabletop game & TV series. She, too, claimed it was "divinely inspired" by actual events & prophecies... but at least she wasn't a racist dickbag.
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> For what it's worth, here's the ancient 1980s prophecy in question:
Oh, but they didn't make good ancient prophecies in the eighties. For great shit, you need to go back in time. Observe a conversation between two metalheads:
Eddie Riggs: Ever feel like you were born in the wrong time - like you should have been born earlier, when the music was... real?
Roadie: Like the seventies?
Eddie: No. Earlier... like the early seventies.
- Brutal Legend
While we're discussing old TV cersions of Robin Hood, it's worth mentioning that Woden's Folk appear to count Little Ron from Maid Marian and her Merry Men amongst their number:
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@mrjuju
"Wyrd" can be translated as "fate". Or "a wizard did it".
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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