(November 28, 2017 at 4:27 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote:(November 28, 2017 at 4:19 pm)Astreja Wrote: . . . and then had an intense but short-lived fling with Norse polytheism
Do tell!
I was actually a fairly serious student of Norse culture in the late '90s into the early '00s, and in fact that's when I assumed this username. Learned how to read runes, read the Eddas, learned a bit of Old Norse and a bit of Icelandic (the closest living language to Old Norse). Still interested from a cultural POV, as it's my maternal heritage, but I underwent a major and possibly irreversible paradigm shift when I realized that I could not (and, more importantly, would not) declare that the gods were real.
(November 28, 2017 at 4:39 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I'm still in my running fling with -all- of the worlds mythologies and magical systems. I often find myself thinking that "putting ones faith" in the gods of these narratives is completely missing the point of them..how about you?
I still find the concept of gods useful from an archetypal POV, and some of them are just great characters in their own rights. (Uncle Loki, I'm looking at *you*!)
