Back	About Saxon Sibbandry

Sibbandry

Sibbandry means 'banding together with others as if they were members of your family'

In the modern western world people tend to be individualistic seeing life from their own personal point of view, or perhaps that of their immediate family if living as part of one.

However living this way makes them powerless against those people who do band together to pursue a specific agenda.

Those who adopt an individualistic life are ultimately doomed to lose their freedoms and become the slaves of those others who maintain a greater capability to assert themselves.

So the point of Sibbandry is to create solidarity among people so that they have greater strength and capability to pursue their collective interests and goals.

Family ties are typically stronger than any other. So in Sibbandry we try and create a sense of family among members of the same 'clan' or 'tribe'.

Saxon Sibbandry

Another factor that strengthens the bonds between members is a feeling that we all share the same heritage and customs. In Saxon Sibbandry we have chosen the term 'Saxon' to indicate our shared sense of identity. To say that we are 'Saxon' is to mean that we feel ourselves to be a part of the same ethnic nation as the Anglo-Saxon people of England in historic times.

Another factor that creates a sense of solidarity is shared customs and a shared religion. So in Saxon Sibbandry each tribe is expected to adopt a tribal religion.

Here we are developing ideas for a suitable religion under the name of Tiewism. Tiew is the Saxon god of justice and good social order who gave his name to the word Tuesday.

Tiewism, as an experimental religion, currently exists in two distinct forms: Heathen Tiewism and Christian Tiewism.

Heathen Tiewism is inspired mainly by ancient Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and its modern reconstructions such as Odinism. As the name implies Christian Tiewism has greater affinity with Christianity. We believe that both approaches are needed for success in today's world.

The Heathen approach has more to say about how to build up a strong people and handle the problems of the every day. The Christian approach has more to say about how to use that capability for the Good, both for our own people and for our neighbours and the world in general.

NB Modern religious Heathens typically use the word 'Kindred' to refer to a clan - or else a religious group similar to a church that sees itself as the potential origin of a modern clan. Similarly the word 'Hearth' refers to a smaller group that typically meets regularly. A larger Kindred would have several Hearths attached to it.

Points:

Create tribes with a Saxon identity

Ultimate aim to create tribes with control over territory and economic resources and able to manage their own internal affairs autonomously.

It is expected that tribes would subscribe to a Saxon identity and limit membership to those who identify as of Anglo-Saxon character and who are accepted by others as such.

It is expected that each tribe would have its own religion that members of the tribe accept as being the communal religion.

As a precursor to full tribalism then the movement aims to proceed as a religious movement which encourages the kind of thinking that would enable it adherents to work effectively for their own individual and collective well-being and to set up full tribalism in future under the right conditions.

December 2024