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    Quote Originally Posted by Radimir View Post
    According to Norse Mythology, Ragnarök would lead to the death of the gods and this has technically already occurred with the arrival of Christianity which replaced the old pagan religions. It's no coincidence that early Christian missionaries used the story of Ragnarök to convert pagan Europeans and made some reversions such as painting Baldr as a Christ figure who was a kind and merciful god, the beloved Son of Odin, loved by him and all the gods who dies and is resurrected in the new world and the survivors being a man and a woman, Lif and Lifthrasir aka Adam and Eve to repopulate the new world, for instance.

    In conclusion. The gods are dead and humanity at large has lost interest in them. The appeal to have a pagan book club is no longer there.
    Why not just make a new Ragronok 😈?

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    Now Im going to comment on my other book, Prose Edda. What should I read next guys?

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    1. Text says in ancient times Odin/Voden used to be a man and not a God. What historical, real, figure was inspired by Odin the most in your opinion?
    2. So both pagans and Christians both simped for Asia as well lol but what was view of the Orient more specifically

    Starting in the north and continuing across is the region called Asia. Everything in that part of the world is beautiful and stately and the earth produces gold and gemstones. The middle of the world is also there. Just as the earth is more beautiful and better in all ways than other places, so to are the people there endowed with blessings: wisdom and strength, beauty and every kind of skill”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Forestspark View Post
    1. Text says in ancient times Odin/Voden used to be a man and not a God. What historical, real, figure was inspired by Odin the most in your opinion?
    This is just Snorri attempting to rationalize the old gods, don't forget that the Prose Edda was written by a Christian antiquarian. Also the whole story about the Aesir coming from Troy is just Snorri's version of the contemporary West European scholastic trend of linking their peoples to the Classical civilizations. The roughly contemporary Franks thought that they descended from Priam of Troy, and the Normans from Antenor.

    Snorri is good for comparative studies and consistency checks, and he did knew some sources containing alternative versions of certain myths that are lost to us. But most of his work is based on the Poetic Edda which is available to us and, unlike the Prose Edda, is largely untainted by Christian interpolations, many of the poems having been written by pagans themselves.

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