RE: Why did god create evil?
November 29, 2011 at 5:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2011 at 5:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Loki is jotun directly, not all of them (and this is the seed of the ragnarok narrative). Conversely, in the irish retelling/version/cultural transfer of these myths, Baldur (or Balor) is jotun, and the roles of good/evil in the pantheon are reversed. Odin himself could be interpreted as having been a human being before hanging himself on yggdrasil. Though they are also said to have been half giants all around (but not necessarily jotun). You see, there were different types of giants, aren't you a big proponent of the neanderthal song and dance? Does that mean that these narratives could be describing our ancestors forced interbreeding with even more species of hominid? Which to pick, which to pick. You see, the religious have never been very good at consistency.
Fun fact, we were taught war to swell the ranks at ragnarok. How pleasant. Norse mythology is one of those great places to bring up the fact that alot of what we know of mythology (specifically european) is handed to us from christian monks (or was nearly annihilated by the agents of the same and left fragmentary). They blended or changed narratives, and the stories we end up with are many times twisted into the greek narratives with different characters and places. Making any attempt to pick out some singular event, person, or experience as the ultimate source is very difficult if not completely impossible. Could be that the monks who wrote the narratives down for posterity invented the whole thing to explain what the locals regarded as meaningless jewelry and knick knacks, lol. Compound this with the fact that pagans often did incorporate the gods of other cultures and assign them jobs, and you have a scenario where even the pagans themselves were never really consistent with just who any given god was or what he did, let alone where he came from.
Once we've gone down the rabbit hole of myth as a retelling of some actual thing or time or place in each and every case, especially when we try to get specific...anything becomes possible.
Fun fact, we were taught war to swell the ranks at ragnarok. How pleasant. Norse mythology is one of those great places to bring up the fact that alot of what we know of mythology (specifically european) is handed to us from christian monks (or was nearly annihilated by the agents of the same and left fragmentary). They blended or changed narratives, and the stories we end up with are many times twisted into the greek narratives with different characters and places. Making any attempt to pick out some singular event, person, or experience as the ultimate source is very difficult if not completely impossible. Could be that the monks who wrote the narratives down for posterity invented the whole thing to explain what the locals regarded as meaningless jewelry and knick knacks, lol. Compound this with the fact that pagans often did incorporate the gods of other cultures and assign them jobs, and you have a scenario where even the pagans themselves were never really consistent with just who any given god was or what he did, let alone where he came from.
Once we've gone down the rabbit hole of myth as a retelling of some actual thing or time or place in each and every case, especially when we try to get specific...anything becomes possible.
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