The Gods and Goddesses of Odinism
Vidar
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It is fitting to follow our remarks on Loki by a short commentary on Vidar, a
god of immense significance for our people although considered to be "obscure"
by writers on mythology. We see, in the old myths, that Vidar appears at the
time of the last battle. He is a son of Odin and avenges his father's death by
slaying Fenris Wolf. He survives the cataclysm to become the spirit father of
a new generation of gods and men. Out of the miasma of mythic distortion this
small fragment of sublime truth shines clearly.
Vidar, the god who stands at the end of this Dark Age - silent, waiting.
Already we feel the approach of his coming love - Vidar the Redeemer. Vidar
the Valiant, the slayer of Fenris Wolf. Vidar, the god of the woodlands, the
god of the new forests that will rise and cover the Earth again when Ragnarok
is past. The Woodland God who slays the automaton in ravening wolf shape that
is technology run mad.
And sweet it is to know that this new woodland god is not a primeval giant,
resentful of man's incursion into his guarded hallows but a child of our own
gods, one of the Ęsir.
We do not call to Vidar. His time to speak to us is not arrived. It is enough
to know that he will come.
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