ODIN’S WARRIOR TRIBE: A REAL CHURCH FOR REAL HEATHEN WARRIORS

Odin’s Warrior Tribe is an IRS legally recognized 501(c)(3) Church (beyond a basic religious organization) and charitable nonprofit, registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland. We are not a vague digital presence or an online-only forum. We are a real church with a Gothi authorized by court order to perform marriages and sacred rites under U.S. religious protection. We are also honored to have one of the world’s leading Völvas—a third-generation, German-born Heathen practitioner.

We are not affiliated with any other Heathen or Asatru organization, kindred, community, or charter group. We steer clear of their factionalism, online drama, and political confusion. What we do is for us—our Tribe, our gods, and our mission. We are self-sustaining, focused, and proud of our independence.

Our names, programs, and symbols are trademarked. Our content is copyrighted. Those who misuse our identity or libel our good name will face legal action.

Do Your Homework

If you're military, law enforcement, or a first responder seeking a community of faith, do your due diligence:

Are they using real names?

Are they a true legal 501(c)(3), or just pretending?

Are they under investigation?

Are they connected with drugs, abuse, or scandal?

Do they use false identities?

Is their presence real—or just endless AI-generated content?

Some groups are openly racist—not in the traditional “folkish” sense, but in the modern, hateful way. We live in a multicultural and multiethnic world. While many come to Heathenry through Northern European ancestry, indeed most if not all of our Tribe, to some degree, we ask: What does that mean today? Our gods are not small. They judge by worth, not only bloodline.

On the other extreme are radical leftist groups who hijack the faith, twist it to fit their ideology, and reject those who won’t parrot their politics. We have seen these with ideologically driven spirituality, politicized religion, and activist theology.

Avoid the extremes.

Our Foundation: Virtue and Values

We are selective. Membership in Odin’s Warrior Tribe is not granted lightly. We are a disciplined warrior brotherhood—and to join, one must live by our virtues and uphold our values.

Our Virtues:

Honor

Courage

Truth

Fitness

Loyalty

Brotherhood

Integrity

Discipline

Hospitality

Industriousness

Self-Reliance

Perseverance

Simplicity

Our Values:

Study of Traditional Northern European Culture

Promote Tribal Community and Teamwork

Stewardship of the Earth’s Resources

Promote Artistic and Handicraft Endeavors that Emphasize Quality over Quantity

Promote a Harmonious Relationship between Men and Women

Be Prepared

We follow Department of Defense Equal Opportunity standards.

Are we universalist? No.

Are we folkish? No.

We are something older, deeper, and harder to define. We judge by deeds, merit, and truth—not identity politics.

Bringing the Old Faith into the World We Live In

We strive to be accurate and true, rooted in the Eddas, sagas, and the runes. But we live in the present, not the past. Our faith is not a fossil—it is a living, evolving truth.

We’ve learned from the failures of the past thousand years—and from the wreckage of Heathen groups consumed by scandal, pride, or chaos. What we do is based on study, wisdom, and clarity of purpose.

We are not for everyone. We don’t pretend to be. We are a Heathen Warrior Tribe.

If what we do is not for you—do your own thing.

If what we do resonates with your soul—then reach out.

Right, Wrong, and the Scope of Our Gods

From Tacitus to the Poetic Edda, our ancestors taught that there is right and wrong—and that consequences echo beyond this life. The Old Ways are not morally neutral. They are tied to Wyrd, Frith, and Honor.

Some say, “Only Heathens are judged by this.” But that limits us. Worse, it limits our gods.

Our gods are not bound by artificial borders. They do not say, “This soul belongs to another belief system, so it is none of my concern.”

To say “Christians don’t go to Valhalla if killed in combat” implies that heaven and hell exist. But we do not believe in heaven. We do not believe in hell—at least not the Christian version.

We respect that others hold different beliefs. But we do not reinforce their cosmology. We do not acknowledge as truth what does not belong to our world.

If someone asks, “Do Christians go to Valhalla if they are brave warriros killed in combat?” and the answer is “No, they go to heaven,” that grants legitimacy to a foreign cosmology.

We don’t.

We believe in Valhalla, Folkvangr, Helheim, Naströnd, Gimlé, Rán’s and Ægir’s Hall, and others—known and unknown. We believe in reincarnation into the lines of our descendants, as our ancestors did.

We believe in a completely different axis of being—a worldview that predates and will outlast imported belief systems.

Ours is a faith of truth, of consequence, of ancestral sites, of our gods who walk among warriors, ancestors, stones, forests, and waves—not gods in gilded cages.

So, when we speak of right and wrong, we mean it.

When we speak of afterlife, we mean ours, not theirs.

When we speak of gods, we mean ours—and only ours.

That is not intolerance.

That is our truth.

And truth is one of our virtues.