Ásatrú means Believer or loyal to the gods. It is the updated denomination of a Nordic religion that includes native dogmas, polytheistic religions of northern Europe. It refers to a kind of modern religion that implies the modern union and recreation of the legacy of central and northern Europe. It is legally registered by countries such as Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark and Spain. This devotion is also credited as Norse tradition, ancient tradition, our tradition and Odinism. Theodism or Anglo-Saxon faith and Vanatrú, which means worship of the Vanir gods, are translations of Ásatrú or close to their ceremonies and to Germanic neopaganism in general.
Asatrú Paganism is a modern pseudonym that was attached to a religion that covers the native beliefs, spiritual pagan dogmas and sanctified contents of the pre-Christian cultural organizations of northern Europe. One of the main references to the skeptical origins of these beliefs as regards their history does not have its last beginning in northern Europe, but it is pointed out that the beginnings of Norse mythologythey were part of the great families of the Indo-European traditions and that everything began in certain places in the plains and valleys of the rivers of the Eurasian continent, north of the Black Sea. Those families of those peoples who professed these ancient creeds had by chance emigrated and eventually they would settle in ancient Europe, Iran and India.
Once settled many years ago, these enterprising individuals were sowing the germ of different cultures in the archaic world that disturbed the general corpus of what would be the Indo-European religions, all the different cultures were bordered by similar gods and consecrated institutions of the cultural and ethnic disagreements, but a common atavistic seat. As time passed, the cultural distinction, the pilgrimage, and the spread of the Indo-Europeans charged with the formation of these identifiable groups as the Germanic, Teutonic and Celtic, so the other peoples of Europe withdrew into different Slavic cultures, Greeks, Romans, among others.
Ásatrú is considered worldwide as a non-dogmatic doctrine; the particular practices of the religious vary substantially between people and peoples, such as the belief that life is pious and should be lived with joy and courage.
