Recently a bright young communist asked me about the wolf and lightning symbols that we use for Spirit Runners. He called them into question as “fascist iconography”. I was trying to recruit this person so i took the time to struggle around the the question. This post is an expansion to that question.
I was able to respond by letting the young communist know that the wolf and the lightning are our power symbols and were taking them and everything they ever stole from us back. I went on to explain that the wolf and the lightning was revealed to me in a vision and that in the old days a great deal of importance was placed on leaders having a vision. I don’t explain all parts of the vision in one place especially to a colonist so i told him my regular quote.
“Wolf is the ultimate anti colonial symbol. Wherever people have tried to industrialize they have come into conflict with the 73 species of wolf on the planet”. Invisible Warrior
This interaction caused me to do more research because honestly i do not know the extent to which fascists and white supremacists operating as neo pagans. My observation is that neo pagans are not necessarily fascists but walking a fine line some are and some are not. It is also worthy of mention the corruption of the swaztica which is actually an indigenous power symbol that was stolen from us against our will.
Further research brings me to a concept known as the wolfsangel or wolf’s hook or wolfs anchor. Apparently this is a runic symbol believed to be able to ward of wolves. Nazis appropriated the symbol for ss units. This is also derived from a trap concept where a zig zag piece of metal is swallowed by a wolf as a wolf trap of sorts then connected by a chain.
This symbol was believed to have magical powers. The fascists are confused as to weather they revere the wolf or not. One minute they are deriving power from the death of my relative and the next they are trying to name guerilla units after werewolves. Turns out Guerilla units terrorized allied troops towards the end of WWII. They caused a great deal of fear. German guerilla fighters were ready to take action. In the end of the war Hitler and senior officers turned toward the supernatural. They created to wolf units. Paramilitary. Hitler called his eastern lair as the Wolfs Den. Nazis were drawing off of the wildness of the untame wolf. The same way we do. After all there were 73 species of wolf on the planet as i explained earlier. We are the guerilla units around here on Turtle Island. It is us who refuse to be tame. To learn and organize like the wolf teaches. The symbol of the wolf is crucial to the restoration of the tribes and we refuse to allow fascists to control the narrative on these power symbols. The lightning to us is a symbol of truth. Coming from the mouth of the wolf. It can destroy but also lightning puts nitrogen into the ground so that plants can grow. We are one of the most stolen from races on earth. We are taking back everything colonists ever stole from us. Again we will not tell the entirety of our wolf vision here because of co-optation and tribal belief. Suffice to say the lightning coming from the mouth of the wolf is a symbol of truth. It is a trademark of Illahee Spirit Runners. The Indigenous Resistance.
And when you think of wolves and lightning. Think about the indigenous resistance. We reclaim, restore and harness the power of the wolf and the lightning.
Written by Invisible Warrior August 2021
Illahee Spirit Runners 
It is my experience that a vision gives medicine power to survive this world because the vision is not of this familiar world or experience so we are bound to another world making us immune to the poisons of this one,,,,,or some shit like that!
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