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Odin is better than jesus
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 (April 9, 2013 at 3:36 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Odin was also played by Sir Anthony Hopkins. Who can Jesus boast? Willem Dafoe, who plays him as something of a pussy who gets chewed out by Judas Iscariot (played by Harvey Keitel). As the story goes, Odin ate his liver, with some fava beans, and a nice Chianti.
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-Stephen Jay Gould 
Odin versus Jesus? Shit Jesus can't even top Optimus Prime much less a real god.
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 (April 9, 2013 at 4:42 pm)festive1 Wrote: In Nordic mythology, isn't the world built on an eyebrow of a giant which Odin slayed?? Way cooler than anything in the Bible.Ymir. Odin slew the giant and from his body made the world (the eyebrow was only for a fence). His (ymirs) body was so fertile that from it a tree grew (an ashe?). Yggdrasil.
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That is why I need to read the Norse myths... It is fascinating what people will believe.
What? Their's an actual mythology about Odin and Thor? I thought Marvel just made that up.
 (April 9, 2013 at 4:42 pm)festive1 Wrote: In Nordic mythology, isn't the world built on an eyebrow of a giant which Odin slayed?? Way cooler than anything in the Bible.Actually, they used the whole body. To quote Auden's translation of the Vafthrudnismal (Stanza 21) From Ymir's flesh was earth shaped, The mountains from his mighty bones, From the skull of Frost-Cold was the sky made, The salt sea from his blood. From Grimnismal (Stanzas 40-1) From Ymir comes the cultivation of earth, and from earth the ocean, fortress of bones, bush from hair, from his head heaven. And of his brows did the gentle powers Midgard for the sons of men; but from his brain was the mind-wondering clouds all created. Quote:BTW, Does anyone know any good books on Nordic mythology? I could use a new book.Well, there's the Poetic and Prose Eddas, of course. And if you want retellings, there's "The Children of Odin" by Padraic Colum, "The Mythos of the Norsemen" by Guerber, and The D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths if you don't mind picture books with introductions by Michael Chabon.
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They all seem to borrow from the same well, don't they? Marduk slew the dragon named Tiamat, Jesus will slay the dragon named, uh... dragon. I guess the lack of imagination catches up with them at some point, huh?
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