Here is the full interview:
Isaac Vazquez
I met Isaac Vazquez in 2008 on MySpace. I was attracted to his profile image that I later used in a Hex design that is hanging in The Hex Factory today. The fact that the entire Hex is composed of Runes really impressed me. From the pictures of his Kindred in Mexico in ritual I concluded that they are some of the hardest core Folkish Heathens around.anywhere. They had the look of a South American Indigenous Shaman's alter only Germanic Heathen. Quite a pagan spectacle to say the least! Later on Facebook, I found out that he has his own site for the kindred he founded, Hermandad Odinista Del Sagrado Fuego or Odinist Brotherhood Of The Sacred Fire and they have membership throughout all of South America. Isaac lives and works as a professional in Mexico City along with his wife, Rubi Vera.
Hunter M. Yoder
1.Isaac, How did you become an Odinist?
When I was 13 I loved going to the Catholic Cathedral as they had on the floor filled with black swastikas this is where I was born which is a port in northwestern mexico .
I started studying shamanism and sorcery of mexico with several guides and teachers, but any change in the wake of a repetitive dream I had and did not know its interpretation.
I dreamed of a cliff watching the moon in a dark sky mounted on a black horse field and led me down to a river where he was a boatman with wide-brimmed hat took me to an island where they heard the word fehu continuous echoing in the center was a cabin with the door open .
Inside stood a fireplace with a warm fire and a woman on a bed of long black hair was pregnant in act of birth and birth outcome was a large black dog out of the womb that became big and transformed in a white crow and then transformed into a small black cat whose forehead was marked kenaz rune in white and touch it and put it in my chest everything was transformed , the atmosphere changed to a desert where there was a big flame and the floated within 3 runes.
The first rune was Ansuz the second was Berkana the third was Kenaz .
As I put my hand grabbed 3 fire runes and put them on my chest ended the dream .
This happened many times to the point of looking for answers that were these signs and the characters in it.
I thought me crazy because for nine months was constant repetition vivid and real.
That led me to study and deepen the way of the gods of the north in the Troth .
When I started in my country no one am one of the oldest started living this way in my country.
I am considered a Gothi or Gudja , a priest in my guild Odinist .
2.Why is it important as a Germanic Heathen to embrace Odinism as a religion?
Why this in our root in our blood and in our spirit embrace this call ancient faith of our ancestors being free men face to any destination to manifest our faith nourishes and gives us strength to stand up to any track and make our great teaching .
And why is the faith that our descendants should our children by the example of his parents as his greatest treasure treasure individuals being free and full of values so they have the tools to fight in a society destroyed by consumerism and globalization and the loss of values and family breakdown as the core of society.
3.Any thoughts on Hexerei, or Germanic Witchcraft? What connection if any does it have with Brujeria or Bruxaria [witchcraft]?
Germanic Witchcraft has a large component of people anglosaxon and much of what many new age or wicatrus actually has its historical and traditional witchcraft magic in Germanic.
What is the connection, if any, to Witchcraft or Bruxaria?
Germanic Witchcraft has had a strong revival and see that there are people actually involved in the study and practice of this noble art and way of life.
I deeply respect those sorcerers and artists like Hunter m. Yoder whom I admire his artwork as hexologist and believe deeply that the hex symbols can be transformed for better or for worse, all around.
4.What can you share with us about your expertise with falcons? Do you hunt with them?
The Falcon is present in my life is an important guide that comes in my dreams and in my daily life I always observe the signals where I live always see these magnificent and beautiful animals flying free and hunted with them and have made communication and familiarity me falcons are part of my family and my spirit.
Many years ago when I started this way in a Blot I made to the gods in a tree perched a great white hawk and stayed with me until the ceremony finished filling me with great joy.
Do you hunt with them?
I do not do because I think the hawks are free to fly without a master.
5.The Black Sun or Schwartz Sonne has a special place in the hearts of those of Germanic descent, Intuitively, I have concluded that this is because of its connection to the Great Migrations and the use of the wagon, specifically the wheel and the ancient Aryan connection to the sun as 'sons of the sun' What conclusions have you arrived at regarding this powerful sigil? Do you see any connection here with the Aztec 'Black Sun'?
Undoubtedly the tremendous burden that is this symbol in Indo-European cultures and their representations of the sun wheel or swastika to the center as a way of inner light that forges the individual to look inside yourself and find your answers connected with his past and ancestors in so many cultures that make up the Indo-European .
I look like a black hole that would manifest a truth of a holographic universe within the multiverse that compose reality.
In the relationship of the sun wheel and seasonal and cosmological cycles over the constellation of the Big Dipper and the Little Bear from the star Polaris is a double star very important to our ancestors and peoples and Germanic tribes trunk .
If no relationship with Mesoamerican mythology and more focused on Ometeotl god of fire god of light and darkness and the role that the god Tezcatlipoca the smoking mirror .
I think in the past there were previous contacts with civilizations which left their legacy through a puzzle and many parallels not only in Mesoamerica or Slavic Indo-European tribes or tribes in all of them there are links that can lead us in the future to reassess the history as we know .
6. What is the relationship between the Runes and the Germanic Pantheon of Gods and Goddesses?
The mystery of the runes is strongly linked to the concept
Eormersyll - Nawarns - Wurz ( Yggdrasill - Norns , Wyrd ) as a cosmological system
cyclical thought and spirituality of the ancient Germanic peoples are
substantiate in double time, ie , " what is" and " what is
develops or becomes , " we must emphasize that the time is
governing the runes are only two dimensions , not three , as currently many
manage system Runic time ... :
Thus, to penetrate the mystery that surrounds the runic system , is
need to understand the " macro- " surrounding it. The concept of Wurz or
Wyrd is central to the interactions that exist when handling the art
rune - magic , ritual and generally any action either from a spiritual
or mundane. That energy inherent in time and space of the multiverse
energy traps every submerged and subject to the laws of Wyrd .
The concept of Wyrd can be viewed from several perspectives , ie from the
Loom standpoint and from the systematic concept big tree or
Eormersyll ( Yggdrasill ) . The first refers to the great web or loom , weaving
by the three Nawarns ( Norns ) , where the three primal energies spin and weave
more complex system with nodular all threads are beings
energy , they are gods , giants , humans, etc. . , individual destiny , governed
and intertwined with the rest of the vast multi universe that strong and forms
infinite direct or indirect interaction with the whole, where every being created ,
strengthens and shapes its own energy dynamics, which exert a force or
loose thread in his individual and general , to this dynamic force is called
Ørlög , and is through the loom tension and relaxation occur as
changes or " what will become ."
The big tree cosmogonic system , concentrated time and space
Germano concept ; weather Wurz denotes the shaft , while the space
is assigned to Eormersyll . Recall that the great cosmic axis , one that
supports and links to the 9 worlds is the tree or pillar Irminsul ( NOT to be confused with
Hammer of Thor) , is because the multi - universal . The system cosmogenic
the great tree is very similar to the natural process that takes place in any
floor of our earth, forming the top of its branches and leaves,
supported by a stem and entrenched deep in the earth for its long
roots, which absorb nutrients from the soil and transport the
vitality up, thus achieving the natural life cycle of the plant.
Within Germanic cosmogony , vitality and wisdom are brought to
above the tree through its three roots , each root with its well and
different sites or specific destinations : Neofelham , Hvergelmir and root
Wurz belongs to well . This entity represents the destination cosmogonically and
etymologically speaking , it is a cognition of the word Wyrd , which
means " rotate " , interpreted as fate or " what will be" . Wurz is
then, one of three Nawarns , the primary and central tripartite system .
In this way, energy accumulation , events, wisdom principles
dynamic , static equilibrium and chaotic , it's like keeping fit
continuing the life cycle of the great tree , which supplies its " jets "
life energy or push the fate of all entities in different
energy levels that comprise it.
In this system, are described Nawarns spraying and adding water and clay
the well of Wurz , denoting the sense of creation, action and transformation ,
where the dynamic energy or water flowing up through the roots and , as can be
referred to as " what is" , and nurturing , the complex multi - universal ,
resulting in the growth of branches and leaves of the tree , creating a
process " photosynthetic cosmological " which eventually culminate in the creation of
fresh water will drip from the leaves to the well and with this starting
infinite cycle again . The big tree was thus a major supplier of
knowledge and wisdom to Wodan ( Odin ) for their self-sacrifice , whence
obtained the vision of multi - universal mystery fully understood in the
arrangement of the nine sticks.
The cosmological concepts described above are complex and complicated
understood , so it is necessary to study each specific for now
only mentioned in a basic and simple .
Understanding these cosmological systems we can realize the role that
play in the mystery of the runes. The create them, carve them , sing and read
produce a strong interaction with the system or the great tree of
great fabric , our journey through life is created by the force of Orlog that are
our own actions , however , there are aspects of our entity
can not be changed and that may be remnants of the same energy force
of our ancestors who also Wyrd has given them his touch
energy .
The mystery of the runes micrometer reveals a part of what comprises
runic mystery and time , reveals a vision and understanding negligible
knowledge and wisdom of the macro -cosmos .
The work it takes us into these cycles primal universal force ,
we are carried away by the infinite current through the vast natural cycle
the great tree , running from deep , dark roots up
the top of its branches, covering us in the great fabric also has been
mysteriously woven by those skilled hands of the great triad .
7.Can you educate the audience as to the evolution of the practice of Odinism in your native Mexico and the rest of Central and South America?
Our community is made up of people who value family ethics
Germanic tribal ancestors and descendants in Mexico and Central and South America and which is spiritual focus ,
actively in the practice of our ancestral religion as authentic as possible.
Odinist Brotherhood of the Sacred Fire to which I belong is formed
individual members and families ranging from infancy to its stage
adult .
As children are a big part of our tribe and community, as
any other , it is imperative that the adult members of the HOSF
exemplify ethics and values through the example strengthening us all equally .
Providing a safe and auspicious
Time has passed since that one day in 1997 December 21
group of people formed the basis of this brotherhood whose purpose
was the study of the tradition of our ancestors and our faith
included within our spirituality known as heathenry ,
haithnu or Odinism
Learned and evolved from different prevailing currents
of the time within the drinking spirituality as sources
Theodish Asatru and Odinism the anglo saxon , clear examples
organizations that made their efforts to spread the faith of
our gods and goddesses
The objective of the formation of the brotherhood is to: create groups
individuals united by blood oaths following code
noble virtues to practice the religion of our ancestors.
Tribal organized in a manner in order to leave this
knowledge gained in the group and individually to
descendants of the families that make this brotherhood
Knowing that we found missing much knowledge task wing
translate and establish lasos with organizations around the world where
always greeted with respect and hospitality
Being the first organization formally established as a point of
meeting and spreading the teaching of our faith in Mexico
Odinists calling as a mere general term , which
spirituality is centered on a tribal leader of the gods
we call Wodanaz why not honor and leaving
other gods and goddesses of the heathen pantheon
Focusing on living our spirituality every day to
promote and live the ways of our ancestors to
then we ourselves become ancestors through
our offspring while being preservers
reconstructing ancient forms to suit our present
united as brothers sharing that knowledge and clear mission
to create cells that propagate these premises of honor and values
family-centered and faith as Germanic as descendants of
noble peoples of Europe
We Manichean discarding absurd ideas and discovering that in the
reconstruction of this religion was not a single road, but a
complex web of intertwined realities and studies with
work of many brothers in other countries to live their
spirituality gave shape to all this current
We resumed the road in runes and learn about the different systems
runic today, focusing on reading about philosophy
poetry and organization of northern peoples believing in our
gods realizing that there are forces that do not know and we
explain but which are present in our lives and what
around us.
We disclaim any affiliation , looking
spirituality and religiosity , can in this brotherhood
any brother with his political ideology be respected , but not
manifested within it
Since this brotherhood as a whole presents itself as apolitical ,
our faith has enough ideological basis as to avoid
supplemented with politics.
Creating self- respect and a pattern that we saw that was one of the
corroding evils within heathenry organizations in the world
We moved away from any kind of racism taking as an organization
tribalism as one of their top whatever adopted
by the tribe is part of it with equal rights and obligations
We were innovative on this regard although it was out of nowhere
the fruit of other groups born in the back to see the past and the
return to the old ways
Developing with the passage of time our own system
worked well in the organization of this brotherhood
We are polytheists .
We believe in not mixing different paths and religions with our faith
our gods deformation of these ideas is something to
always be against the indiscriminate use of the tendency of
see everything as part of a whole, when we believe that everything has
an essence in itself and whether it should be respected as exemplified
Jesus is the god odin is balder and mercury
We believe that combining this type of practice only leads to the
ignorance and spiritual emptiness calling him finish
universalist
We respect all forms of spirituality making it clear that
is who we are and what we do not want to be
Taking the reconstruction and recovery of language and writing
Gothic as a backup for homogenizing this movement , as
sacred language that someday our descendants may
daily talk
Part of its strength is that the customs and culture of yesteryear
move to the present in order to create individuals
aware , more spiritual about their surroundings , and
a great sense of respect for the world around them, for life
and this entails equilibrium in Midjungard
Our temples are all forests and heat our homes
making it clear that there will be venues as churches or
buildings temples make this brotherhood somewhere
but all will be used for this purpose midgard respecting and
honoring its sacred nature and careful forest ecology
and our brothers animals which rely on the animal kingdom
the formation of our clans
We take to the trees as clear examples of what our
spirituality taking all clans and guilds issued by
this same symbol of the cosmic tree flanked by Eomerssil
stars of the constellation Ursa Major and having high
the same tree an eagle surmounted by the double star polaris
taking the spiritual north of our tradition as a beacon to us
gives its light into the darkness of infinite space
Faith , Honor , Family .
8.The A:L:U: charm, (Ansuz:Laguz:Uruz) what personal significance if any do you attach to this charm?
I'm not familiar with such charm and has no relevance to me.
9. What can you tell us about this Runic Hex?
Isaac, can you tell us about your usage of the Runes in creating this visual sign?
The sign I use is called Hawk's eye represents the clan of the hawks I see it as an implosion of energy that causes a balance in form and influences creating energy waves around.
It is a variant of the big wheel the flyfot the swastika in the cycle of seasons.
In generating cycles of 8 runes lighting. Protection, Abundance and fertility.
A large sun white across the black hole.
In Heathenry or reconstruction called Germanic paganism currently being forged , in every step
courageous heathens worldwide , expose their views
Return to this call is a daunting task , involving more than
live a noble life values and beliefs , with leads to be
true in what one is
In this diversity of groups, in their work of rebirth, each
organization interprets these truths and endorsed by providing
characteristics .
There are various schools and folks and among them there are some differences that sometimes give a sense of ideological divorce , even this dissent can occur within the same folk.
This phenomenon is perfectly normal, Odinists primarily because we lack a central institution to be responsible for issuing regulations and dogmas of faith . However, there is a unifying element : the ancestral , but above all , faith .
The point is that this call in some people and occasions, is present , in particular guiding spiritual direction.
Past and even invasions
strangers religions , a person was away to choose a religion and spirituality growing within their own tribe .
A Native American, happy in his wild nature, not listen to Gods rare for them such as the Gods Orientales.
This was due to the tribal structure in which he grew up as a child , born within the bosom of a tribe with a more or less established beliefs and a spiritual entities which yielded
worship, this conception was far from self and worry about other
religions , devoted his life to his own inheritance .
Similarly, other beliefs , other Indians as in Europe , were established in a society where we own was including religion and spiritual traditions in which they conceived their development.
A clear cut in these customs and
organizations could be clearly pagan Rome, an empire and as
Empire Universalist any nation .
Rome adopted for if , like Greece, gods and customs of other peoples , usually peoples who had already dominated and closely studied .
Unlike the later would make Christian , Rome not destroy most of the time and
except sometimes counted , the religions of the peoples who invaded and imposed their religion on anyone.
Now identified
other Gods as Germanic or Celtic and interestingly the Greeks
of those who took much of their beliefs , with his
own .
Odinism is a religion tribalist , but this , I observe that
often only seen from an organizational perspective and
social , ie Odinists Clans and we settle in
Folk Families of it , however , we often ignore other
accounting for Tribalism meanings and traditions
spiritual are totally misunderstood , at least to me
trial, but some contemporary Heathens .
As we have seen , each person belonged to the religion of the tribe
where born, were those same traditions those of his nearest and
distant ancestors and what would be their offspring from
moment when these come to Midgard.
Spirituality is transmitted to us as so many things,
our own genetic inheritance also becomes a legacy
spiritual .
This is proved by many things , our own environment by
instance . The Cultural Environment clearly marks the character of the
person , since childhood. More than ethnicity, is the culture
what makes children and headed for an education (not to
confuse ethnicity with culture). A religion of that culture will
based solely on their mother culture where flourished , not
forget that Christianity is not a religion of our culture.
This religion of a culture so scrupulously concrete
typical mean spirituality endangered culture
Universalism disintegration phenomenon that destroys
cultural and religious identities , globalization laying in
life threatening unit of American Indian tribal groups are
perhaps the cruelest face of such universalism typical of the Empire
Fascist , or as others say , the Oligarchy . Politics always
will be one of the greatest dangers of cultural groups
desire for survival , such as ethnic and cultural sectors
pose a danger to globalization , the main source of
income from strong and the powerful .
Here we see the worst atomic weapon , the worst side of
Universalism , ie, the yoke of totalitarianism under which
try to humiliate a tribal collectives .
Another clear example of such binding religion, culture , involves the
mythology . We know , at least the fans noticed the
different mythologies , that the mythology of a people is capable of
tell the story of their culture and even more , as the
mythology can give huge tracks the thinking of an entire
village, the village where this mythology flourished.
clearly this shows the great truth of spiritual lineage of
tribal character and the union of these two factors. a person
always more effective when you own things , one will speak
its always best mother language , which he inherited from his culture and
who knows by heart , to another he learned later and talking
clearly difficult.
The Odinist receive this inheritance according to Folk to
belongs. Asatru belief is very respectable , but nonetheless
His followers often become very Universalists by not taking into
has its own heritage .
I guess for comfort , not try to investigate their own
inheritances, Icelandic traditions are when they have nothing to
do with Iceland, might not know the history of that nation. the
Runes are studied according to the Icelandic landscape and fills them
mouth with a runic magical grimoire of Icelandic origin and also with
touches strong Christians.
It is true that if our Gods claim for all their children
the imposing Teutonic nation , however , it is also true that
each tribe (Folk ) had differences other folk maybe a neighbor ,
but different after all .
In what does it profit a Goth, Saxon runes ? As material
study may be interesting , however when the
practice did you serve ?
If the Goths had a very conception Rune and a
own magical and spiritual traditions , it is stupid that an
descended from them that Odinist call himself , end up
based on a totally different tradition .
The all- father Odin, Odin was not called for all Germans .
Each one had its own way of calling . Odin may well serve
for Asatru , however ? us ?
Strictly speaking , either Odin or Uuoden (ie , our
Wodan ) , this is the same entity , the same divinity . without
But each tribe was revealed in a different way and generation
after generation was inherited to come in an identical manner
to which their ancestors may receive .
I have heard that the proper way to call within a Folk is
a way of giving the same Folk homogeneity . We are in danger of
think that is a method of marking our own identity
Folk auque against other and also that is one reason it is also
true that there is a powerful spiritual reason within their own
concept .
The establishment of a Folk, not based on making a difference
only, a different language, a different concept , one
different story , maybe better or maybe worse . All this is very
nice and very easy to digest , but there is a powerful reason is
away to make a difference and declare a relevant autonomy .
Besides all this , is to contact a single intrinsic strength ,
within a modus operandi itself that connects us with a source
ancestor that sopondrá a profit, the profit from a
legacy with which we are born . It's similar to what Jung called the collective unconscious or subconscious race .
After folkish ideology , understood in a broad and
real superficiality is removed , ethnicity and its slopes
ignorant and unrealistic : racism and Nazism. Besides this it is found
Face reality where a person connects his own
past and takes advantage of his heritage.
Now there is a concept historically Germanic , as we
tests indicate that history has left the hands of their
spokespersons ; historians.
The concept of adoption has been practiced by some tribes
from early Germanic times nothing . While a family
composed in a way , that for the western walking , would
Traditional . Also present the concept of adoption and
adoptee ( by a blood pact ) was considered a member
Clan itself . This person even had the legal right and
legitimate on inheritances . This shows that this idea was not
nothing unusual in the traditional paradigm of our ancestors and
Odinism been preserved, among other things , that
social conception and assimilated for your organization.
When talking about superficiality before interpreting the
Volkish movement , also spoke of the idea of those who
deny this truth , adoption is not a universal concept and
tribes was used in making a completely
tribal
Tribalism see it as a third option that frees that infamous war against universalist folkish heathens .
There are already several years I have seen flourish groups and organizations
serious , following this call to form organized and established
as an option in the
different systems prevailing in this eternal manifestations
evolution that gives our way
For those who stand firm in the distance to our religion and spirituality from here my
blessings and admiration for his work
Because every path or every conflict
generates growth and self-knowledge
My most fervent are individuals who establish families ,
based on values and virtues returning this past and adapting to
be present in the future of our actions and present actions
To all who rebuild their tribe , raise my horn full of
mead for this titanic work
That the Valkyries ensure the path of those who with a knot of
knowledge and effort to build working randomly
our way
At the end of the appointment in the sacred precincts , someday to have enough
everyone equally and then to our gods and ancestors can
all provide the same horn.
10. What is the state of Heathen Germanic Tribalism in Mexico and South America?
10 years ago the confusion prevailing understanding was created Visigoth alliance Eagle , this call egged
Mexican forests at the foot of the volcano of fire.
Among the major variants of our spirituality Heathen
embedded in our roots as descendants in Latin visigodas
and Europe , there has been a movement to rebuild the tradition
Ancestral Visigoth , with a form of tribal organization .
That's why it was created this organization , the Alliance of
Eagle Visigoth , who works in the structure and planning
goals , linking groups of individuals, by geographical distance
can not meet , however they are willing to join in
this effort in their communities and countries.
Visigoth Eagle Alliance is present in Latin America and
Europe is represented by Brazil , Colombia , Venezuela , Uruguay , Chile , Argentina , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Mexico and Spain among others ,
being one of a tribal alliance , a union of Visigoths in
Midjungard .
We have a climate of respect and mutual aid frank with Heathens organizations .
Expressing our rejection of politics that corrupts our
youths, our symbols and racism that undermines the basis
of our spirituality which is the family .
Openly reject every political movement that distorts the
Faith and spirituality way is Odinism .
11. What ancient Germanic tribes do you hold dearest and why?
The Goth tribe and its variants in Thervingi (Visigoths).
And anglosaxon tribes deeply admire and am a big fan of Hengist and mythological heroes horsa history of conquest and Germanic invasions england.
12. What is your view of the Conquistadors? Christianity at its worst or conquering heroes of the North?
The cristianism i see it as a religion invented by Constantine a clear example of universalism oppressive cultures and religions destroy plunging humanity at its worst obscurantism.
I see I see a conquest political management wanting to install a system based on a theocracy geopolitical where the monarchy supported by this aberration monotheistic actually it is not because umbrella polytheistic gods and customs for the sake of universality eclectic .
A huge mistake and a great crime to me is Christianity I see a great danger in all Christian sects regarding the heathen and their coexistence in the future.
Christianity and Islam are the worst enemies of our struggle is Odinists and build strong families and healthy individuals with strong values and principles that can withstand this ignorance and need to be irresponsible and bequeath to an all-powerful authority forgiveness or salvation society and the human spirit .
For me , Christianity is a religion predatory many conquered peoples plagiarism based sword and fear and still carry that programming repressor in our being the result of centuries of domination and brainwashing.
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