Anonymous ID: 309c10 June 28, 2018, 5:54 p.m. No.1949281   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9340

A Danish newspaper says (in Google translation): “Masonic movement may have originated in pagan rituals that were practiced by Nordic Vikings, says Arvid Ystad to Ekstra Bladet.” “He presents his theories in the book “The Freemasons in the Viking Age ‘,

 

With regards to Ystad theories, the article only mentions “two coincidences”.

 

When the sons of Vikings are to be included in the clan (family), he got a leather shoe on the right foot.

 

– At the reception to the first degree of the Masonic Lodge, the future Freemason wears a slipper on his right foot.

 

At the inauguration, the future Mason goes around a so-called ‘working blanket’ [‘tracing board’] three times and then steps over it three times. According to Arvid Ystad, a similar ritual took place when young men in Viking times were to be dedicated to Freja.

 

After a death, the body was often burned and the remains, which was considered to be sacred, were stored in a coffin.

 

– The young man had to go three times around the coffin and then step over it three times, says the Norwegian.

 

A Norwegian newspaper introduces the author with the following text (Google translation):

 

When we know that modern Freemasonry appeared publicly in England and Scotland at the beginning of the 1700s, can these origins have been the old Norse religion as Norwegian and Danish Vikings in its heyday brought to the islands to the west (current UK and Ireland)? Although the population of this area in the clean exterior was christened during a couple hundred years ago, the Norse rites and performances have remained very much alive in the centuries that followed. Such knowledge can help explain a number of features of today Masonic rituals that are otherwise totally incomprehensible.

 

Instead of a shoe and a coffin (alright, they are in this article too), the Norwegian newspaper speaks about pillars:

 

An important symbol of the Freemasons are also the pillars we today think of as Solomon Pillars. They can actually be a symbolic continuation of the Norse his pillars which settlers in the sagas considered sacred and threw overboard as they approached the island nation in the West.