Extraterrestrials

In Varg Vikernes’s account, Extraterrestrials are not distant visitors arriving by chance but pre-programmed robots from Sirius: planetary engineers, creators of life, and continuing observers of human development. Their supposed history makes Norse myth evidence of alien intervention, while their role in Vikernes’s cosmology also supports its racial hierarchy. The text presents these claims as his interpretation, not as independently established history.

Origins and the Moving Earth

The account begins with the robots discovering Earth and deciding that life could be created there. Earth, however, lay too far from the sun. The Extraterrestrials therefore set off nuclear explosions to move the planet, an intervention Vikernes uses to explain both the asteroid belts outside Earth and the glass sheets in the Sahara desert, which he associates with the tremendous heat required to form them.

As Earth moved, he says, its equator shifted as well. He identifies that equator with the Midgard Serpent, the world-encircling serpent of Norse mythology, and connects the displacement of the planet to the myth in which Thor fishes for the serpent. In this reading, myth and physical catastrophe describe the same cosmic history in different forms. Vikernes also invokes the Eddas’ account of the gods moving celestial bodies and the seeress’s claim to come from a world before the present one; he interprets that earlier world as another planet.

Engineers of Life and a Racial Hierarchy

Once Earth had reached a suitable climate, the space travellers supposedly began creating life. Their robots gradually improved terrestrial flora and fauna on Lemuria, with the human race presented as the culmination of their work. The Extraterrestrials thus appear as deliberate makers: life is not an accidental development in this account but a project directed toward a particular endpoint.

That project becomes explicitly racial in Vikernes’s account of Atlantis. Giants, described as primitive prototypes of what would become Homo sapiens, grow jealous when the gods create Aryan man. A war follows; Atlantis sinks, and the Aryans seek refuge elsewhere, where they eventually mix with other groups. Vikernes claims that they survive as a pure race only in Northern Europe. His narrative therefore makes the aliens’ supposed acts of creation part of a mythic explanation for racial purity and hierarchy, rather than a neutral account of extraterrestrial contact.

Continued Observation and Human Knowledge

The Extraterrestrials remain present after these ancient interventions. Vikernes says that they watch humanity, abduct people, and mutilate cows in order to track human development. These acts make observation an ongoing feature of the story: humanity is not simply the result of alien engineering but remains under surveillance, with the Aryan population singled out as an object of particular interest.

He also treats ancestral knowledge of natural phenomena as evidence of contact with more advanced beings. His example is Svalin, the name he says the old ones gave to the ozone layer, understood as a shield between Earth and the sun. The warning that Earth would burn if the shield fell is, in his interpretation, knowledge that human forebears could not otherwise have possessed. Extraterrestrials thereby connect a supposed technological intervention in the distant past to the transmission of knowledge across generations.

Myth as Evidence

Vikernes argues that the basis for his claims is apparent in the Eddas, supplemented by material from the Vedas and other Indo-European sources. He interprets a passage in which Odin sends Heimdall to improve humans genetically as an account of extraterrestrial or divine intervention in human development. In that reading, the mythic division among bloodlines records a distinction between the group deemed worthy of Valhalla and others cast as failed experiments.

The result is a cosmology in which myth, planetary history, biology, and racial ideology reinforce one another. The Extraterrestrials are at once the agents who made life possible, the engineers who shaped its supposed hierarchy, and the observers who continue to assess its development. Their narrative function is not only to explain unexplained natural phenomena, but to give Vikernes’s claims about ancestry and racial difference an imagined cosmic history.