RE: Belief in magic
November 29, 2017 at 12:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2017 at 1:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 28, 2017 at 11:47 pm)Astreja Wrote: 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*!)
I suspect that this might be all they were meant to be...and that were it not for the contamination of ignorant and dogmatic christerism people could appreciate these divine narratives as and for what they are. The same current is lost -in- christerism -by- believers. They don't realize...for example, that "cain" and "abel" are descriptors.....not proper nouns. This is completely lost in translation, as is much of the double entendre and cleverness of mythical structure in genesis and even as far along as the NT, and their parallels in pagan mythology. Wotan did, after all, pluck out the offending eye.
I find that a person can easily keep the troth and build favor in hamingja without believing in any actual gods.
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