Tyr (journal)

Tyr: Myth—Culture—Tradition is the name of an American Radical Traditionalist (anti-modern, neo-tribalist^[1]) journal, edited by Joshua Buckley, Michael Moynihan, and (in the first issue) Collin Cleary.

It is an annual publication named after Tyr, the Germanic god. The magazine states that it "celebrates the traditional myths, culture, and social institutions of pre-Christian, pre-modern Europe." The first issue was published in 2002 under the ULTRA imprint in Atlanta, Georgia. The magazine largely focuses on topics relating to Germanic neopaganism and Germanic paganism with an amount of content regarding Celtic polytheism as well.

Three volumes have appeared so far; vol. 1 in 2002 and vol. 2 in 2004 and now vol. 3 2006 is available from the Tyr website or from Norway's Integral Publications. Contributors include Asatru Folk Assembly founder Stephen McNallen, Nouvelle Droite leader Alain de Benoist, an interview with noted French comparative philologist Georges Dumézil, British musicologist and translator Joscelyn Godwin, modern Germanic mysticist Nigel Pennick and scholar Stephen Flowers, besides translations of texts by "Traditionalist" author and occultist Julius Evola and völkisch poet and musician Hermann Löns. Volume 2 also includes a CD of music related to the subject matter or authors contributing.

Contents 1 "Radical traditionalism" 2 Reviews 3 Contents 3.1 Volume 1 3.2 Volume 2 3.3 Volume 3 4 Publication data 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

"Radical traditionalism"

The editorial preface of Tyr, vol. 1 enumerates the following "radical traditionalist" ideals:

1. Resacralization of the world versus materialism.
2. Natural social hierarchy versus an artificial hierarchy based on wealth.
3. The tribal community versus the nation-state.
4. Stewardship of the earth versus the "maximization of resources."
5. A harmonious relationship between men and women versus the "war between the sexes."
6. Handicraft and artisanship versus industrial mass-production.

Reviews

Thomas Wiloch states that:

"Tyr serves as a meeting place for those who see intriguing commonalities between the environmental, pagan, alternative music, and occult communities, and between certain political ideas of both the left and the right," further stating that the publication is "on the extreme edge of things".^[2]

The reviewer for Northvegr identifies the philosophy behind Tyr as primarily "Odian" (Stephen Flowers' school of occult "Runosophy"), expressing concern that the magazine:

"..wraps into a round of praise and admiration for the likes of Julius Evola, Herman Lons, and the dark master of chaos himself, Karl Maria Wiligut."

Northvegr then requests "firm voices calling out from the side of right and order" to correct the impression that the occultist "Traditionalism" advocated by Tyr represents a mainstream position in Germanic neopaganism.^[3]

The reviewer for Willamette Week identifies Tyr as a journal of "neo-pagan crypto-scholarship" (but does not elaborate further or give example) and an "artifact of modern Bohemia" aiming at the "creation of an alternative intellectual reality", and states further that:

"...a section of this issue's preface attempts to dismiss 'The Fascist Accusation' before the fact."^[4]

The "attempt" the Willamette Week refers to is the preface to volume 2. It reads:

"Watching the impressive spectacle of thousands of black-clad storm troopers marching in lock-step formation, one is reminded of nothing so much as the regimentation of modern, industrial society. The Nazi's overarching emphasis on biological materialism, and the idea that human perfectibility could be achieved through eugenics, is mirrored in the modern obsession (albeit purged of the focus on "racial purity") with cloning, genetic engineering, and mood-controlling pharmaceuticals. That any of these unnatural and frightening panaceas could genuinely reverse the soul-sickness of our age seems highly unlikely. They will only make things worse."

Contents

Volume 1

The first issue was 286 pages (Ultra Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0-9720292-0-6).

Title	Author	Notes
Editorial Preface	The Editors
The Idea of Integral Culture: A Model for a Revolt Against the Modern World	Stephen Edred Flowers
Knowing the Gods	Collin Cleary
Priests, Warriors, and Cultivators: An Interview with Georges Dumézil	Alain de Benoist
From Lore-Giver to Law-Giver: The Tale of Woden	Steve Pollington
Indo-European Trifunctional Elements in Celtic Foundation Myths	Alby Stone
Divine Traces in the Nibelungenlied, or Whose Heart Beats in Hagen’s Chest?	Michael Moynihan
The Goddess Zisa	Nigel Pennick
The Dark Side of the Mountain	Annabel Lee
On the Spiritual Arts and Crafts	Nigel Pennick
Julius Evola: A Philosopher for the Age of the Titans	Joscelyn Godwin
Hermann Löns: An Introduction to His Life and Work	Markus Wolff
The Easter Fire	Hermann Löns
The Saxon Songwriter: An Interview with Fire + Ice’s Ian Read	Joshua Buckley
“Son of man, can these bones come to life?” Review Essay: The Prisoner	Collin Cleary
Reviews: Books
Reviews: Music
Resource Directory
About the Editors
About the Contributors

Volume 2

Issue #2 has 432 pages (Ultra!, 2004, ISBN 0-9720292-1-4). This issue included a bonus CD sampler (see Tyr Bonus CD Sampler) featuring: Blood Axis, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, Fire + Ice, Coil, and 16 Horsepower among others.

Title	Author	Notes
Editorial Preface	The Editors
The Traditional Doctrine of Battle and Victory	Julius Evola
Summoning the Gods: The Phenomenology of Divine Presence	Collin Cleary
Thoughts on God	Alain de Benoist
On Being a Pagan: Ten Years Later, An Interview with Alain de Benoist	Charles Champetier
Reflections on Disparate Myths of Divine Sacrifice	Michael Moynihan
Origins of the Germanic Warband	Steve Pollington
Heathen Holy Places in Northern Europe: A Cultural Overview	Nigel Pennick
There Were Giants in Those Times: The Guardians of Albion	John Matthews
The Sacred Plants of Our Ancestors	Christian Rätsch
The First Northern Renaissance: The Reawakening of the Germanic Spirit in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in Germany, Sweden, and England	Stephen Flowers
Three Decades of the Ásatrú Revival in America	Stephen McNallen
Ludwig Fahrenkrog and the Germanic Faith-Community: Wodan Triumphant	Markus Wolff
The Friedrich Hielscher Legend: The Founding of a Twentieth-Century Panentheistic "Church" and Its Subsequent Misinterpretations	Peter Bahn
Herman Wirth on Folksong	Joscelyn Godwin
Musical Ammunition: An Interview with Allerseelen's Gerhard	Joshua Buckley
Reviews: Books
Sagaman and Storyteller: A Conversation with P. D. Brown	Joshua Buckley
Fermenting Moon Musick: A Conversation with John Balance of Coil	Michael Moynihan and Joshua Buckley
Reviews: Music
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the Cover Artist		Odin Wiesinger (1961- )
Responses to the First Volume
Appendix: Bonus CD Sampler		Summary description of Primordial, Blood Axis, 16 Horsepower, Changes, Allerseelen, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, Bigorna, In Gowan Ring, Fire + Ice, Steve Von Till, Sangre Cavallum, Waldteufel, Apoptose, Ô Paradis, Jay Munly, Coil and The Spectral Light and Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree.

Volume 3

Binding: Softcover, 530 pages, Publisher: ULTRA (2006), Language: English, ISBN 0-9720292-3-0

Title	Author	Notes
Editorial Preface	The Editors
Cipherspace	Thomas Naylor
Catastrophe Pending	Annie Le Brun
Survival Theory	Pentti Linkola
On The Primordial and the Perennial	Michael O'Meara
Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power	Alain de Benoist
The Web of Wyrd	Nigel Pennick
The Abode of the Gods and the Great Beyond	Thierry Jolif
The Spear of Destiny	Stephen Flowers
on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy	Joscelyn Godwin
Humour in the Icelandic Sagas	Ian Read
on the Hávamál	Géza von Neményi
Children of the Sonne	Gordon Kennedy
Carl Larsson’s Greatest Sacrifice	Michael Moynihan
Iceland’s Pagan Renaissance	Christopher McIntosh
on Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson	Jónína Berg
Selected Poems	Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson
Baltic Lithuanian Religion	Vilius Rudra Dundzila
The End Times	James Reagan
Interviews	Andrew King and Roland Kroell
Paganism Without Gods	Collin Cleary
on Mark Sedgwick’s Against the Modern World	Róbert Horváth
Reviews: Books
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the Cover Artist

Publication data

• TYR Myth, Culture, Tradition Vol. 1, Ultra (2002), ISBN 978-0972029209.
• TYR Myth, Culture, Tradition Vol. 2, Ultra (2004), ISBN 978-0972029216.
• TYR Myth, Culture, Tradition Vol. 3, Ultra (2006), ISBN 978-0972029230.

See also

• Traditionalist School
• Development criticism

References

External links

• Tyr official site