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gizing of Christianity by Alfred Rosenberg, the socalled official philosopher of the Third Reich, in his book The Myth of the Twentieth Century. 15. The word “Kymris” is obviously derived from the Welsh-gaelic name of the Welsh: Cymru [pron. kymree]. 16. Arun Verlag has published Weisthor—Karl Maria Wiligut: Himmlers Rasputin und seine Erben by HansJürgen Lange (1998). This volume presents a wideranging collection of extant German documents relating to Wiligut. 17. Wiligut’s cycle of twelve heathen calendar poems, the Gotos-Kalanda, was originally published in a small edition in 1937. A booklet version with English translations and additional commentary was issued by the Austrian researcher Kadmon in 1992. A newly revised translation appears in the “Wiligut Texts” section of the present volume. 18. The works of Rüdiger and Teltscher are even more obscure than those of Wiligut. See Mund (1982: 223ff.) for some idea of the nature of Rüdiger’s esoteric treatment of Eddic sources. Additional material relating to Rüdiger can also be found in Lange (1998: 245–46 and passim). 19. See especially Wiligut’s “Whispering of Gotos—RuneKnowledge” (1934), which appears on pp. 85–99 of this book. Further elaboration of this can be found in Gabriele Dechend’s article “The Cosmos in the Conception of our Ancestors” (1935), which is translated as Appendix B of this book. 20. It should also be noted that a similar, though not identical, model for Runic development was put forward by Peryt Shou in his Die “Edda” als Schlüssel des kommenden Weltalters! (The Edda as Key to the Coming Age), published in 1920 [English edition translated by Stephen E. Flowers, published by Rûna-Raven, 2004]. Wiligut was an acquaintance of Shou’s in Vienna. See also Thorsson (1989: 145–53).