Heathenry
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Originally Posted by Kazimiera
Oh.... Some US teenagers are ignorant.
They don't know that Christianity replaced old pagan religion of the germans ( Julius Caesar reported that "germanics" did not worship humanized SEMIGODS... he reported that "germanics" worshiped river moon trees particularly TREES..germans considered the gods only the ones that they can see, the Sun, Fire and the Moon.... Tacitus, 180 after Julius Caesar reported that Germans absorbed some aspects of ancient roman religion ) for one simple reason...
In accordance with germanic belief only the warriors who died in battles could hope for another after-life ... all the others simply vanished.... childs women old men and sick people deserved no afterlife..
The early Christian apostles did not encounter great difficulties in evangelizing the Germans outside roman empire territory... because they never had an Emperor like Diocletian..and because the choice between old paganism and Christ is quite obvious..
Christian apostles taught that Everyone could be saved ... including women childrens and old and sick people who could not hope for salvation with old paganism.
When the Germans began to settle down within the borders of the Roman Empire, -III-IV- century- there was a great danger for them ... they were already CHRISTIANS (ARIANS)...
Before Constantine - IV century A.D.- it was very dangerous to be Christians inside the empire...
Can someone tell ASATRU TEENAGERS that Marvel Comics are not historical sources of barbarian paganism ?
Oldest Norse religion works dated to the 13th century A.D.
What do we actually know about the Old Norse views on creation – the cosmic genesis? Hardly anything at all, it could be argued. All the sources (that are very scarce ) on Norse mythology and cosmology are written sources, written in the Latin alphabet by scholars and monks more than 4 or 5 century after the Conversion to Jesus, and we just do not know to what degree “accurate” Pagan myths survived in the memory of Christian descendants across several generations. Another question is how “accurate” any myth would be in the first place, since the Pagan religion was not a dogmatic religion basing itself on the interpretation of holy books. It was a religion that based itself on magical activities and mystical experience, and myths may have varied according to who related them, when they related them, to whom, and when, and with what purpose. Poetry was a sacred art in Norse Paganism, and poets could take great liberty and apply endless variety in their use of allegory and metaphor in order to convey a message...
So Mohammed is the father of the Koran and Christians Monks are the fathers and grandfathers of a very varied collection of popular fantasies... with almost no relations between each Others..
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