Welcome to the Wotan Clan

If you’re not white, they hate you. And women call the shots. by Juan Mecklin


The fastest growing religion inside America’s prisons is not Islam, as many might suspect. It’s Wotan, a violently white supremacist and anti-Semitic version of Asatru, the pre-Christian pagan religion practiced by Norse Vikings. And, while most of the roughly 20,000 practitioners of Wotan serving time in federal and state prisons are men, the vast majority of Wotan’s leaders and proselytizers in the free world are women.

The largest Wotan organization in the country is Sigrdrifa, a nationwide matriarchal network of Wotan priestesses that is named after the fiercest Valkyrie in Norse mythology (according to Asatru and Wotan theology, Valkyries are supernatural maidens who conduct the souls of slain warriors to the Viking heaven called Valhalla).

“We are the shield maidens of the Aryan warriors, both free men and prisoners of ZOG [Zionist Occupied Government], who are battling to protect all Aryans from the savagery of muds [non-whites],” said Sigrfrida leader Louise Owens. “We pray to the old Gods of our Nordic ancestors for victory in RAHOWA [Racial Holy War], before all the beauty, uniqueness and tradition of European culture is stripped away by the forces of mono-culturalism promoted by the global Jewish slave masters.”

Based in Vancouver, Washington, Sigrdrifa has a growing membership of over 1,000 female recruits spread among chapters in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Other multi-state Wotan organizations in which women hold positions of authority include WotansVolk and Halls of Wotan. All have organized prison outreach programs that seek to convert white prisoners to Wotanism.

“There is clearly a powerful and ongoing pagan revival among the white prison population in the USA, including the wholesale conversion of white prison gangs to this ancestral religion,” said Swedish comparative religion scholar Mattias Gardell, author of the 2003 book Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. “One cannot underestimate the influence of white nationalist women in leading this revival. Racist pagan religions such as Wotanism are the one place where women have carved out a leadership niche for themselves in the American neo-Nazi or white nationalist movement, which is traditionally male-dominated.”

One Wotan convert, Brent Parker, died because he disrespected Thor. It happened Jan. 16, 2000, inside the Augusta Correctional Center in Craigsville, Virginia, where Parker, a convicted murderer who was serving a 50-year sentence, gathered with five other inmates for a pagan ceremony. All six men were followers of Wotan, a white supremacist and anti-Semitic variant of Asatru, the pre-Christian religion practiced by Norse Vikings. They’d been converted through the prison outreach ministry of Sigrdrifa.

But Parker, the most recent convert, wasn’t taking his new faith seriously. He’d been cracking jokes about Thor, and had even threatened the life of convicted burglar Michael Lenz, the founder and leader of the Wotan sect Lenz, dubbed the Ironwood Kindred. Parker’s last moments on earth were spent listening to Lenz read from a book of Wotan poetry. Lenz then called Parker to the foot of a makeshift altar and informed the unwitting victim that he was about to be sacrificed for violating Wotan’s code of honor. Next, Lenz and another inmate pulled makeshift knives and hacked Parker to death, stabbing and slashing him 68 times. (Lenz was executed last July. The other killer committed suicide on Death Row.)

Most Wotan followers in jails and prison are men, but not all. Female extremists behind bars who remain active in the Wotan movement include Michelle Benson, a member of the neo-Nazi group World Church of the Creator who’s serving a life sentence for murder in New Jersey State Prison [cq].

From her cell, Benson writes for VOR-Our Sister’s Voice, a magazine published by the Michigan chapter of Sigrdrifa, which bills VOR as a “forum” for women in prison to sound off on “their people, our cause, and living behind the wire.” In 2002 Benson exhorted fellow Wotanists inside and outside prison, “Do whatever it takes to vanquish the Zionist regimes controlling our lands, and help our race recapture its rightful place as the great leader of culture and civilization. Hate and fight the enemy.”

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