Symbols & Their Meanings
no:10 ~ Irminsul
To celebrate the release of our new Smoky Oak Mead, I’m going to restart my series ‘Sunday’s Symbols & their Meanings’.
For the new readers here, each batch of mead we make features ancient symbols on the bottles, relating to Northern European culture.
IRMINSUL WAS AN IMPORTANT PART OF GERMANIC PAGAN PRACTICES
On the Smoky Oak I’ve added the symbol Irminsul, an ancient pillar that stood in modern day Germany. It played an important roll in the Germanic pagan practices of the Saxon people.
The popularised symbol that we see today appears to be a form of wooden pillar, though scholars believe that it was a large stone structure. This is more plausible as it is recorded that the genocidal psychopath Charlemagne had his army tear it down in 772ce which took them 3 days. If it were a tree, this would have taken 3 minutes.
The site is believed to be at Externstein in Germany. The pillar is a representation of the Germanic world tree Yggdrasil, which is the connectivity between our realm and the realms of the Gods. The universal energy that connects everything.
The Irminsul has become one of the most used symbols on modern day Germanic Paganism, alongside the
Mjolnir
(Thor’s hammer), the tri-Horn and the
Valknut.
IT IS BELIEVED IRMINSUL WAS LOCATED AT EXTERNSTEIN IN GERMANY
I chose to have this symbol on our new Smoky Oak Mead bottles because well, it’s awesome, and it’s also very significant to our ancestral culture.
Hope you learned something!
Skål.
