Traditie jaarboek 2025
The second yearbook of the heathen organisation Traditie from Flanders was published in november 2025.
Like the first volume, it is printed on A4, has glossy, colour pages and this issue has a little over 100 pages. Like before, there are 20+ shorter and longer essays on a variety of subjects. The yearbook is again in Dutch.
The most productive author was Benny Vangelder with three texts spanning over 20 pages. The first article is similar to the recently reviewed book The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered by J.P. Mallory (the lengthy review of the book of the same author in the digital newsletter of Traditie was my reason to read the book). Another essay is about metaphysics and one about death.
Also Koenraad Logghe contributed three texts. ‘Why I am ‘heathen’, one about Fate and a report of a group talk during the celebration of 33 years of Werkgroep Traditie.
There are in depth investigations such as Boppo Grimmsma’s Wih en hailag (notions of the sacred), Axnot Wedasunu about ‘black peter’ (devilish winter characters in different parts of Europe), ‘the unpious warrior’ by Ralf van den Haute and my own text about Askr Svarte’s pagan Traditionalism.
Then there are lighter texts, poems and songs.
The latest yearbook makes another nice read. Members of Werkgroep Traditie will have received their copies by now. Other people can get their copies from the webshop. Click on the cover.
2025 Traditie
I expected a short word of our chairman, since this is the last issue of this publication, but beside a short note in the inside of the cover, there is nothing. For several reasons (stated in earlier annoucements), the magazine will cease to be, but nothing is mentioned. Perhaps the opening article is telling. The articles of Herman Vanhove are usually humerous, this one is about someone who passed on. Further there are a couple of articles by Benny Vangelder about the World Tree/Christmastree, man made from wood and the ‘nephew’ peoples of the Oeral region. Other articles are about another “sibbe” involved in our movement, the original version of the “Little Red Riding Hood” tale, Indo-European mythology (by the Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst) and a story about mistle toes and witches wisdom.
The newest issue of Traditie magazine has reached me even before the autumnal equinox! The contents are as follows:
Fortunately I didn’t have to wait for this summer solstice issue of the Traditie magazine as I had for the last one. This is the second issue with the ‘new style’: different writers, less scholarly and with more focus on the present and ‘living Asatru’. Herman Vanhove still opens the magazine as he has done for years and he speaks a little about his Chinese friend who has passed away… 2500 years ago: Confucius. As always a humerous article about daily life. Next up is an interview with Vanhove and his family. This marks the start of inviews with “sibbes”, an old-fashioned term which means roughly something like “household” or in a larger context “family”. The Vanhove sibbe is questioned about their pagan past, their raising children, heathendom in daily life, etc. Next up is founder Koenraad Logghe who uses the allegory of an old car to explain why Traditie keeps away from politics, a subject that has brought many problems with outsiders in the past. “W. Heydens” wrote an article about “the holy book of the pagans”. Alwin Goethals wrote something about “Sacred War, traditonal grounds and elements of struggle”, a lengthy article that gives the current state of the man’s lifelong investigation (both literary as practical) of Western martial arts. After a poem “Elcmar Bölverkr” says that we don’t become pagan, but we are pagan and then “Mummelaar Vandenhangzak” presents a ‘light version’ of the lengthy series of articles of Jurgen Vandenbotermet that could be found in the ‘old style’ issues of the magazine. Benny Vangelder wrote a text about goddesses and the last text is a story about a man’s obsession with fire.
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The autumn equinox issue of the magazine of the Flemish Asatru group Traditie finally made it to me. In the last months there has been some thinking and discussion about the future of the periodical. The articles were regarded too long and too difficult for/by the average reader, so from the spring equinox 2008 issue, there is supposed to be more variety, lower-level articles and more input of the members of Traditie. Also the articles should be less historical and more focussed on the present and our religion in daily life. It seems that for this issue some of those remarks have been kept in mind, because the founder of the movement Koenraad Logghe has written an article about “our mental attitude” which deals with the ‘pagan’ position in the hastiness of our time. Current chairman Stefaan van den Eynde wrote about the ‘heathen’ conception of time, which is not as linear as modern man sees it and in which the present is also the future. Other articles are the always amusing opener of Herman Vanhove, this time about a ‘goody-goody’ under-priest which proved to be a beloved and wise man; Jurgen Vandebotermet writes about the “Nekker” and other “pagan motives”; further we have Benny Vangelder about “the Celtic Odin” and Sonja Vanmeiren who tells us something about the spirituality of doing the garden.