How it is Supposed to Work

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Let me share a nicely made website for those willing to learn more about “The Twilight or Fate of the Gods”:
 
https://www.mythic-harmonies.com/norse-m...the-world/
 
Personally I see a great deal of symbolism in the theology of ancient cultures. In some cases, it is like ancient people are talking to us directly as if they wanted to warn us about what lays in the future.
 
Right now I am reading Naomi Klein’s book called “This Changes Everything”. The book is about climate change and how we managed not to do anything substantial about it in the four decades after we knew with certainty that climate change was real and that it was coming.
 
The answer is: Greed. Everyone wants to be the boy or girl with the most pie (and the Sagas refer to this as well). So what happened is huge petrochemical companies doing everything they can to maintain their business model and groups of scientists, politicians even environmental protection organizations working with them so that their Billion dollar industries keeps running (even if that means killing us all).
 
Existentially, these are “nothing” as defined by existential philosophers like Sartre. These are the Giants, threatening to destroy the very fabric of our world (Ydrassil itself – the tree that carries and supports all the worlds in the Norse cosmos).
 
And the Gods, our gods are justice, democracy, secularism, the right to live in a healthy and safe environment, universal healthcare, access to education, women’s rights over their own bodies, the rule based international order or even space cooperation between major powers…
 
The list goes on and on. And those giants are there to destroy all of this like Fenrir swallowing the sun or Jormungandr killing Thor (the favorite God of north men).
 
And one element I like about this story is that the Gods will go to this war anyway. Despite Odin knowing from the beginning that they are set to fail. That’s a very Viking interpretation of courage:
 
- Courage does not mean courage in a winnable war but courage in a war that is impossible to win.
 
/ So again: What if these people truly saw what’s happening to our world today and wanted to warn us about it?
 
(This is just an open question, everyone can have an opinion of his own)

Again, the Eddas (they’re not ‘sagas’, by the way) have nothing to do with the world today. They are not in any wise prophetic, nor were they ever meant to be. What you’re doing is taking your own view of the world and trying to hammer Norse mythology to fit into it.

You’re a very silly person.

Boru