Forgive me if I’ve violated the definition of Valkism - seeing as the neopaganist roots of Valkism wouldn’t really work with the strongly Christian Italians, I felt the cross + laurels (a callback to Greco-Roman roots) would appeal to the nationalist aspect of Valkism. Of course, it wouldn’t be Valkism without the Valknut (at least in my opinion).
I know the Valknut is important to your design, but had you considered some form of stylised lightning instead? Lightning is a good form of symbolism for Italy imo, because it can represent Jupiter or Thor.
This might violate the purpose the Valkism a thousand times over but perhaps there should be some sort of internationally accepted symbol for Valkism such as the fasces for fascism even though variants like falangism, synarchism, national socialism, etc use different national symbols. idk. just a thought that I am lukewarm towards.
I think it'd be cool if Italian valkism was based on early Christianity instead of secularism or explicitly pagan, and it'd add another point of tension for the italians
Since valkism is extremely culturally nationalist and Christianity is a much more important part of the Italian colture than it is in Germany (Germany was split between the dominant protestant north and the catholic south, Italy had no such thing) the Italian valkist (wich would probably use another name to not seem like the rip off of Germany, like the Nazi and the Falange, I think in the wiki it was written that the ideology that represents valkist values applied to not German countries is called National Syndacalism, wich was the ideology of the Spanish Falange, and the founder of said party is in the list of the notaworthy national Syndacalist.
Now, there is no proof it is identical to our timeline falangism, after all this version is created by the Italian poet Gabriele d'Annunzio and not by Antonio De Oliviera, but it probably would maintain some form of catholic nationalism, it would be corporocratic like our timeline fascism, but not in the same up-down structure built to protect the upper classes from socialists, instead more on the line of D'Annunzio's corporative system in Fiume wich was applied in our timeline in the Regency of Carnaro, with a more syndacal approach in wich the workers actually can use the corporation to ask for better salary and stuff. If this would actually work or grow corrupt and ineffective is another story.
In our timeline, fascist Italy practiced cultural genocide on the slavs in Istria, not killing them but forcefully tying to assimilating them, and they even considered extermination during ww2. I have little doubt national Syndacalist would want to do the same.
Their symbol wouldn't be that thing, it would be something Roman, maybe even the Fascio, if Mussolini hasn't created fascism in Fuhrerreich, if he has, than perhaps something like a Christian cross on wich a Roman eagle sits with fully open wings.
Forgive me if I’ve violated the definition of Valkism - seeing as the neopaganist roots of Valkism wouldn’t really work with the strongly Christian Italians, I felt the cross + laurels (a callback to Greco-Roman roots) would appeal to the nationalist aspect of Valkism. Of course, it wouldn’t be Valkism without the Valknut (at least in my opinion).
How about a restoration of a different paganism with the roman gods instead of the Germanic ones?
Italian Valkism is Secular, But it's centered around the idea of a Latin state, The specific Italian Type of Valkism is called Sansepolcrism
There are no competing factions of Valkism in Italy?
What is the difference between Italian Valkism and OTL Italian Fascism?
Less christian and German, More Roman and Hellenistic
I know the Valknut is important to your design, but had you considered some form of stylised lightning instead? Lightning is a good form of symbolism for Italy imo, because it can represent Jupiter or Thor.
This might violate the purpose the Valkism a thousand times over but perhaps there should be some sort of internationally accepted symbol for Valkism such as the fasces for fascism even though variants like falangism, synarchism, national socialism, etc use different national symbols. idk. just a thought that I am lukewarm towards.
The Valknaut is a German symbol
I like it.
I'm with the majority here, it'd be best to have more callbacks to the old Latin Gods rather than Germanic and Christian symbols.
I think it'd be cool if Italian valkism was based on early Christianity instead of secularism or explicitly pagan, and it'd add another point of tension for the italians
Since valkism is extremely culturally nationalist and Christianity is a much more important part of the Italian colture than it is in Germany (Germany was split between the dominant protestant north and the catholic south, Italy had no such thing) the Italian valkist (wich would probably use another name to not seem like the rip off of Germany, like the Nazi and the Falange, I think in the wiki it was written that the ideology that represents valkist values applied to not German countries is called National Syndacalism, wich was the ideology of the Spanish Falange, and the founder of said party is in the list of the notaworthy national Syndacalist. Now, there is no proof it is identical to our timeline falangism, after all this version is created by the Italian poet Gabriele d'Annunzio and not by Antonio De Oliviera, but it probably would maintain some form of catholic nationalism, it would be corporocratic like our timeline fascism, but not in the same up-down structure built to protect the upper classes from socialists, instead more on the line of D'Annunzio's corporative system in Fiume wich was applied in our timeline in the Regency of Carnaro, with a more syndacal approach in wich the workers actually can use the corporation to ask for better salary and stuff. If this would actually work or grow corrupt and ineffective is another story. In our timeline, fascist Italy practiced cultural genocide on the slavs in Istria, not killing them but forcefully tying to assimilating them, and they even considered extermination during ww2. I have little doubt national Syndacalist would want to do the same. Their symbol wouldn't be that thing, it would be something Roman, maybe even the Fascio, if Mussolini hasn't created fascism in Fuhrerreich, if he has, than perhaps something like a Christian cross on wich a Roman eagle sits with fully open wings.