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October 29, 2007
Asatruar saves woman's life
A woman who ran off the road and plunged over a cliff was saved by a man named Clifton Siple. Siple found the wreckage and the woman 14 hours after she wrecked, as he was walking along a beach. What is more interesting is that Siple practices an ancient Germanic-Scandinavian religion, and is a member of the Asatru Folk Assembly.
From the Curry Coastal Pilot article:
Siple, who was walking his Airedale terrier Dusty when he found Scott lying next to her car on the beach, said he was praying to Njord, the god of the sea, while awaiting rescuers.
"I was just praying to him, 'hold the tide back a little bit longer so we can get Diane out of here,'" Siple said Friday.
Siple said he is a member of an old Germanic-Scandinavian religion called Asatru. "It's not a mainstream religion. It's being reconstructed from a thousand years ago. We're not naked dancing in the woods," he said.
Way to go Clifton!
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Posted by keg at October 29, 2007 6:20 PM
