The White Order of Thule (WOT), created in the mid-1990s, was a loosely knit group of individuals who believed in the superiority of the Aryan race as represented by Norse, Viking and other ancient Nordic cultures. WOT followers generally adhered to Odinism (sometimes referred to as Asatru), which they asserted was "a spiritual way of life, based on the Nordic ancestral mythos; or the collective beliefs and folk-consciousness of the Aryan people."

Odinism, when practiced by white supremacists, focuses on the rejection of what they see as Jewish-influenced Christianity; the embrace of an "indigenous faith" rooted in pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon warrior cultures; and the oneness of the Aryan race with nature.

National Socialism and other racist and anti-Semitic ideologies have tremendous appeal to white supremacist Odinists, who point out that many prominent Nazis practiced a form of Odinism in Nazi Germany. Many white supremacists in prisons practice the racist version of Odinism.

Primary activists in WOT and its publications included tattoo artist Nathan Pett (aka Nathan Zorn) and Peter Georgacarakos, a convicted cocaine dealer and prison inmate. While Pett lived on Whidbey Island, Washington, he used WOT to glorify the activities of The Order, a white supremacist terrorist group active in the 1980s whose leader, Robert Mathews, died in a shootout with police on Whidbey Island in 1985.

Citing betrayal by a WOT member, the group announced in the Summer 2000 issue of its newsletter, Crossing the Abyss, that it was disbanding and would cease publication of the newsletter. At the time, WOT members were encouraged to write for another newsletter, Fenris Wolf, published independently by WOT members in the Northwest. Fenris Wolf has since ceased publication. Pett was attacked with a baseball bat by unknown assailants in February 2001 in Spokane, Washington, and is reportedly in a semi-comatose condition.