A Walk With Our Ancestors

A Walk with our Ancestors is a description of Odinist and Wotanist beliefs and asserts that Odinism has taken three different political positions which it tries to explore. The author Benjamin Richard Long is a former US Marine and now a practicing Odinist, who also wrote Rebel Call (2009), Sigurd the Valiant (2010), and Darkness Saga.
The book which is carried by Barnes & Noble and Amazon discusses the nature of existence and of the spirit keeping in tradition with heathen traditions from a re-constructionist's standpoint. The author claims to define what Odinism is from a practical standpoint without diluting the essence of the meaning with euphemisms or other devices that take a position on the situation. Old traditions are said to be taken and mixed with modern values to create a coherent and veritable theological system that is ethnically based.
One of the main theses of the book is that the Germanic religion was an ethnic religion and that every ethnicity had a particular way that they look at the world. Connections are drawn to Norse mythology, especially the Edda. One of the components of belief in this book is ancestor and community worship, meaning that the family and the fathers and mothers of the tribe are regarded and exalted above all.

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