Askr Svarte
Askr Svarte (From Odn-Norse: Black Ashtree, [means Black (side) of World Tree Yggdrasil], real name Evgeny Nechkasov (Cryllic: Евгений Нечкасов) is a Russian Odinist priest. He is also an author, artist, poet, lecturer, and philosopher. He is the founder of the Svarte Aske Community of Pagans. His work has focused on the philosophy of the Left Hand Path in Odinism, traditionalism and existential experience. He was born October 5, 1991.
Askr Svarte is the author of several books on Left Hand Path in Odinism and a lot of articles about traditionalism and different aspects of Odinism, including Gap (2013),Problems of Pagan Traditionalism (2013), Dobroslav: traditionalist view (2014), etc.
His articles is featured in the eighth edition of the firts magazine for Rodnover "Родноверие". (2014) and in Internatianal Almanah "Традиция и Традиционализм (2012-2013)".
He is also an author of first documentary movie about paganism in city Novosibirsk "Языческий Новосибирск" (2014).
Background
Since childhood, Askr has been fond of ancient mythology of different folks. As a teenager he wonders about the role of religion in life and become a pagan. Firslty he joined to Rodnovery, but soon finally rooted in Northern Tradition. As he said: I don’t oppose Odinism to Asatru or other name-for-tradition, for me the names are secondary thing. I also don’t belong to far-right racist groups who see themselves as Odinists or Wotanists.
In 2011 Askr created the community of pagans Svarte Aske unites representatives of Rodnovery and Odinism for the purpose of mutual assistance, advocasy of pagan worldview and spiritual selfknowlege. Since 2011 to nowadays community members celebrates solar dates and traditional holidays. One of the important activities of the community is the proliferation of articles and books about paganism. Under the auspices of the community has been translated and published a number of articles, interviews and books.
Since 2012 Askr started to practice and write about the Left Hand Path in Odinism, as he called his view "Svarte Aske" that means "the way through darkside of Yggdrasil". This doctrine has common features with Hindu Tantra and Aghora, and with Veleslavs doctrine of "Шуйный Путь". With emphasis on the existential experience of Nigredo stage and human beeing in Iron Age. From 2011 to 2014 Askr Svarte publish a several books with descriptions of his own spiritual and existential experience. With Veleslav he met in 2011, and since then maintained friendly relations and implement joint projects. In 2011 Askr organized the first Veleslav vizit and two-day seminar in Novosibirsk. He also inspired by traditionalism philosophy by René Guénon, Julius Evola and Aleksandr Dugin.
In winter 2014, the community was filmed the first documentary about Paganism in the city of Novosibirsk in showing the main pagan figures of the city, including Askr Svarte. He is appers as one of number pagan priests and as a director of the movie.
Written works
Books
- «Зарисовки Мизантропии» (2011); - Sketches of Misanthropy
- «Svarte Aske» (2012); - Svarte Aske (including Sketches of Misanthropy)
- «Gap» (2013); - Gap (Abyss)
- «Книга Безразличия» (2013); - Book of Indifference (post script to Sketches of Misanthropy)
- «Заметки с Изнанки» (2013); - Notes from the Inside Out (A joint project of several authors, a collection of relevant Russian existential prose)
Articles and Interviews
- «Проблемы Языческого Традиционализма» - The Problems of Pagan Traditionalsm
- «Интервью с Вульфом Гримссоном» - An interview with Wulf Grimmson
- «Интервью с Гейдаром Джемалем» - An interview with Geidar Dzhemal
- Etc.
See also
- Veleslav
- Germanic Neopaganism
- Left-hand path and right-hand path
- Julius Evola
- Aleksandr Dugin
External links
- Svarte Aske web-site, English
- Charter of the Community, Russian
- Charter of the Community, English
- Interview, 2014
- Interview, 2014
- Interview, 2013
- An interview with Geidar Dzhemal, 2013
- An interview with Wulf Grimsson, 2013
- The Sanctuary of Surtur
- Three steps of Self-Knowlege
- About education and knowledge transfer
- Celabaring of Midsommar, 2013, English
- Фильм "Языческий Новосибирск"
- The movie "Pagan Novosibirsk"
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