Odin is better than jesus

[festive1]

That is why I need to read the Norse myths... It is fascinating what people will believe.

Is it really so much dumber than the bible tale?

Nope, not at all. I guess that's why I find it fascinating. People believe in the Bible, yet have set aside far better stories. Why?
An aside: I recently went to a lecture on Etruscan archaeology. Evidently they believed a babbling child sprang forth from a furrow in the ground. This child, Tages, babbled about how the gods should be worshipped, and they followed his "preachings."
The lecture was on a temple they've been excavating where a child's body was found. Turns out this child's skull showed signs of severe epilepsy. The lecturer made a good case that this child was either the Tages or viewed as a sort of second coming. The fact that ancient people thought a severely mentally challenged, epileptic child could be a messenger of the gods is amazing and confounding to me. As with so many myths, there's often a grain of truth as to how they started.
Again, I just find it fascinating what people will believe. Even more fascinating, they cling to those beliefs in the face of far more logical explanations of things.

[archangle]

I wanna be a Viking. Oh wait, I probably am a decedent of them. And that Khan guy. They knew how to roll.

[thesummerqueen]

I wanna be a Viking.

I'd rather be a Celt. Their women fucked some shit UP!

Festive, I think this is the book I have. I didn't find it last night, but I only got about halfway through my shelves. Pretty sure this is it, though, by the cover.

http://www.amazon.com/Norse-Myths-Panthe...+mythology

[KichigaiNeko]

[DeistPaladin]

Odin's Heaven (Valhalla) kicks ass over Jesus'.

War games by day. Partying and sex all night.

Sure, you eventually die permanently when Ragnorak comes around but I'd gladly trade an eternity of sitting on a cloud kissing JC's ass and playing a harp for a finite party-fest in Asgard.

[KichigaiNeko]

Then there's Scatach



highly romanticised I know. Funniest thing is that the Persian women were just as war-like as the celt women

[thesummerqueen]

That artist looks highly influenced by Luis Royo.

[KichigaiNeko]

Probably is but the story is the same. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A1thach

IF the Celts drew their culture from Persians as is hypothesised then any wonder islam is so adamant that women are nothing but fucking fodder?

[thesummerqueen]

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.

Always an ash whenever I heard about it.

[The Grand Nudger]

I think it's an interestingly whimsical notion of the world. Essentially two cones whose points meet at midgard. Sphere, disk, square? No, none of that shit - we got a better idea...lol. If you're going to imagine worlds at least go big, amiright?