Guido von List: Our Foundation
Guido von List is a foundational figure in modern Asatru. As a child, he simply developed an obsession with pre-Christian religious sites in Austria. These were initially Roman-pagan, but he quickly learned that there were people in Austria before the Roman empire, and they were called Teutons and indeed had a religious and cultural history. He studied Tacitus and the other classical writers, and in a flash of inspiration decided that instead of simply studying the ancient Germanic gods, he would worship them as if the Christian millennium had not intervened. List was not however created in a vacuum; there were many proto-archaeologists working diligently throughout Europe at this time, completely overthrowing Christian dogma in the field of history and science. Von List is important to us as being a conduit between the researchers of the late 18th and early 19th century and the modern resurgence of our ancient religion today. One book ...