Storm and Frenzy: A Call for European Unity in Defense of Our Continent
“But what is more than curious — indeed, piquant to a degree — is that an ancient god of storm and frenzy, the long quiescent Wotan, should awake like an extinct volcano to a new activity…” — Carl Jung
After a council with his bishops, on November 27th, 1095, Pope Urban II held a speech on a field near the French town of Clermont. He called on all Europeans to stop fighting their brother wars and ushered them to take up arms against the Eastern heathens — the threatful Turks and Saracens that had invaded Europe. According to the Pope, the crimes these barbarians committed against the Eastern European population justified a new kind of war. He called it an armed pilgrimage, a Crusade. Led by Godfrey of Bouillon, a man in his early forties from present-day Northern France or Belgium, the first crusaders would defeat everything in their path and liberate Jerusalem from Islamic occupation.