Nytnes is a non-canonical Germanic Templist text. It is suitable for Germanic Templists, and it may be edifying to others.
Despite originally being written as non-canonical, the following is now canonical:
1. The Reading List must be completed in order to become a Germanic Templist chief priest. This is in addition to The Seminary. Therefore, the requirements for Germanic Templist chief priesthood are more stringent, canonically, than for the chief priesthoods of other pantheons. Some books in the Reading List of Nytnes overlap with books in The Seminary; they only need to be read once.
2. How To Become A Demigod is now canonical. That section says the following:
“Merely revering a god according to its nature also causes the epigenetic change mentioned above. Actually, this is the only Canonical mechanism described. It is possible that my CBT method is superfluous, in other words that you do not need to ‘try’ to emulate any of the practices described, but can simply cause them to occur by revering the gods.”
I say that this is true: the cognitive behavioral therapy method is superfluous. Anyone with the capacity to approximate the nature of a god is able to do so merely by revering that god. Therefore the subsections of How To Become A Demigod dedicated to each god are useless as CBT methods, but useful as descriptions of the gods to revere (but not in any way special among other canonical descriptions), and said descriptions are also canonical. It is foolish to assume that one can CBT his way into becoming godlike, any more than a warrior can CBT his way into becoming an unconfident nerd or vice versa, since such natures consist of incalculable minute qualities brought together holistically, often driven by an underlying psychology or physiology that cannot be emulated. Using the CBT method is just play-acting, i.e emulating one or two traits of a god, very imperfectly, using your own mortal nature.
If you fancy yourself to be a demigod, or the incarnation of a god, then you must say so publicly, in order to be ridiculed by others. This makes such a claim mostly impossible unless you are a notable person who can get away with making one. There shall be no mass of ordinary people silently believing that they are gods. The most that some people can hope to do, is learn a character-lesson or two from their various gods, especially if they belong to a god-bred population. Those who are actually demigods are an even smaller subset of the population. One must, furthermore, be an initiated Templist, of the pantheon of the god being claimed, in order to be a demigod, and in order to learn any significant non-demigod character-lessons from their gods. For an incarnated god there are no qualifications, since I should not give mortals the ability to pretend to impose such qualifications on an actual deity. Even the requirement to declare that one is an incarnated god if one so-fancies oneself, exists only for mortals who are not. Most incarnated gods in history have let the information pass by in silence. The fact that incarnated deities are exceedingly rare balances the fact that self-important social recluses will like to secretly identify as them, since the improbability of being one should be apparent even to them.
Since it is said that Merovingians are always godlike, it is the case that their demigod claims are more credible. Even when they are not demigods, they are more godlike than any member of the general public. When they are demigods, they are exceedingly godlike. The social consequences are obvious and divinely planned.
It is possible to pray to a god to obtain a quality, including a godlike quality, or a set of godlike qualities sufficient to become a demigod. This does not mean that such a prayer will be granted. This means, by the way, that the Celtic manner of prayer, which is always of that type, results from the inability to conduct objective-based prayers, rather than a trade-off against them, and that limitation gives rise to a different tradition of prayer. A Germanic person can theoretically conduct quality-based prayers exclusively, if he wants to. He generally will not want to, because Germanic people are monochronic and therefore wish to focus on goals, and pray for goals, rather than personal vanities of general applicability.
https://archive.org/details/Nytnes
https://www.scribd.com/document/748722557/Nytnes
September 10, 2024 (though Nytnes was published on July 8, 2024)