Ritual Dance demonstration at the Odinic Rite Folk Camp

During this years Odinic Rite Folk Camp, I demonstrated a ritual dance, which was composed from Morris dancing steps of the Cotswold tradition. I originally devised this dance for my Hama Inaugural Blot earlier this year. The reason I decided to perform this dance at the camp was because I wanted to show those who had not considered it before, that ritual dance has great potential for Odinism in the Modern World. We can observe that every indigenous people has, or has had, dances of a kind that have a clear ritual significance, perhaps the most commonly known and universally practised dance being the raindance. Our Indo-European Folk would of course have had such dances, many of which have been lost thanks to the unforgivable work of Christianity; yet we still see remnants of these rituals in the folk dancing and other practices continued to this day, though the meaning is often overlooked or forgotten. There are many examples of dances containing ritual significance within Europe, but since I am English and have composed this dance using traditional English Morris dancing steps, it is only this particular style that I will be discussing during the article; other Europeans should be encouraged to research the folk dances in their own region/country, and reclaim them under the Odinic banner.

(For the full article please visit the Odinic Rite Guardians website, where it will be uploaded within the next couple of days - link to follow)

Hail the Folk Ways
Hail the High Ones
Hail the Odinic Rite

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[ThomasRowsell]

moriss dancing is thought to originate in spain as a celebratory dance for the banishment of the moorish from spain.

[Hengest]

@Danboy5050 Real men are comfortable enough in their manhood and sexuality to not have to worry what others may think.

[pupsenok]

Morris dancing clearly has indigenous European pagan roots, as does the far more widespread Maypole dancing. In fact, I have done the latter at certain festivals (albeit clumsily as I am no dancer). Be that as it may, I think the lack of male-specific dancing has more to do with modern social reasons than anything else.

[Thrymheim1]

How did I miss these before? Pitty I always miss the dancing.

[Hrodebertsson]

That was great. Well done! If you have enough energy left for an encore I'll look forward to it.

FFF

[bKiwiD]

This video, as well as the full article on the website, are of great quality and show profound insight. I'm very grateful that you've chosen to work to learn and share about ritual dancing and their incorporation into modern folk practice.

[thunorson]

Excellant video , it amazes me that the link between E.folk dance and our heathen/asatru faith has not been discussed more .