These are not myths but historical facts corroborated by non-Norse historical accounts.
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If it happened the world would have ended
In a way it did. You know it as Noah's flood, which describes the Thera erruption and the events surrounding it.
The Thera Erruption is what caused the Ogygian deluge and the destruction of Atlantis that took place at that time. Ragnorok also indicates that a Mega Tsunami occurred and engulfed the whole of Greece, wiping out almost every person that lived there.Quote:
How The Eruption of Thera Changed the World
The world map might look differently had the Greek volcano Thera not erupted 3,500 years ago in what geologists believe was the single-most powerful explosive event ever witnessed.
Dwarfed the atomic bomb
Historians and archaeologists have had trouble deciding on the year Thera erupted, with dates ranging anywhere from 1645 BC to 1500 BC. Studies of ash deposits on the ocean floor have revealed, however, that when the volcano did blow, it did so with a force dwarfing anything humans had ever seen or have seen since.
https://www.livescience.com/4846-eru...ged-world.html
Norse mythology is a pile of shit.
Would've been cool. Just a planetary field battle, a front 3000 km long.
If I was into Asatru, I'd go all the way and take all of it literally, it's way cooler than the wishy-washy/hesitant-interpretive approach. I'd get a great, big battle axe to keep above my fireplace and tell people the great tale over dinner lol.
The myths of ragnorak, Kali Yuga, the end times in the Bible are nothing but wisdom from ancient cultures that civilization works in cycles but using mythology to explain this. How many civilizations have thrived and collapsed in the past? How many haven’t? Exactly. For every growth cycle there is a ending ragnarok cycle.
It is the natural order of human society to rise and fall. The Roman Empire, Han Dynasty, the Soviet Union... they all rose and fell apart... and another society was built from its ashes. The same fate could be said about many western nations.... United States... Canada... Australia... its natural selection and how nature operates...