Norse mythology recognised as a religion

Europe ^ | 11/06/03 | Europe

[WackyKat]

So what does the term Pagan dieties mean?

Pagan comes from the Latin word "paganus" meaning "rural villager"

A pagan deity was just someone else's god that Christians didn't like.

[RightWhale]

Now I'm wondering where the name 'Odin' came from originally. Wotan, possibly. It might also trace back to an IndoEuropean root since both Germanic and Slavic languages do. It might also appear in Italic and Indo-Iranian languages. Greek, too.

[biblewonk]

A pagan deity was just someone else's god that Christians didn't like.

Yup, works for me. I just don't see peace or joining or anything there.

[RightWhale]

an acronym created by the British

With full knowledge and understanding of etymology. American acronyms are nonsense words. British acronyms sometimes mean something.

[RightWhale]

I just don't see peace or joining or anything

Latter Pagans were very peaceful. Countryside was peaceful as in bucolic and boring. The idyllic countryside persisted as an idea that became America. But then America was transformed into a total industrial society and greatest power the planet has ever seen. The Golden Age has come and gone--again.

[PoisedWoman]

One of my cats is named Freya after the Norse cat goddess.

Great! You're way ahead of us all. My cat is MaiseyJane and I have to bow before her every day.

<Is Freya really the cat goddess? I ask because a friend named his dog Freya. LOL.

[biblewonk]

Peaceful like the Sioux in Dances with Wolves.

[aristeides]

In Wagner, Freya is the goddess of youth. Freya die holde, Holda die freie. I don't remember anything about cats.

[archy]

Hmmm, Church of Thor, music by Wagner, bare breasted blonds and beer.

Beats the religion of peace all to hell.

I suspect the *religion of peace* will not be at all happy about one of Freya's pets.

[WackyKat]

Freya was primarily the goddess of spring and fertility, but she was also the goddess of cats. She was said to travel the countryside in a chariot drawn by two giant cats.
A dog named Freya? Pfffffftt!

[archy]

I don't remember anything about cats.

Would that the rest of us were so fortunate.

Wagner's Parsifal would have taken on an entirely different character, had Our Hero only shot his arrow skyward into a cat rather than a passing duck.

-archy-/-

[snarkpup]

One Morality

Nice motto. Any details?

The Nine Noble Virtues of Asatru

[MattAMiller]

You're both right. I Googled up the origins of the word and it's appearently an acronym choosen to mean "The land of the pure" in Perisan and Urdu. Here's a cite where the guy who coined the name explains it's origins:

"P.A.K.I.S.T.A.N. is both a Persian and an Urdu word. It is composed of letters from the English language with every letter standing for the constituent areas of all our homelands. It means the Land of the Paks - the spiritually pure and clean. It symbolises the religious beliefs and ethnical stocks of our people; and it stands for all the territorial constituents of our original Fatherland. It has no other origin and no other meaning; and it does not admit of any other interpretation. Those writers who have tried to interpret it in more than one way have done so either through love of casuistry, or through ignorance of its inspiration, origin and composition."

[Dead Corpse]

Can I get an amen! Obviously not the moral credo of the Democrats that's for darn sure. ;-)

[onedoug]

Ethical Monotheism

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

So I wonder. If there was an Odin character in the story universe, would he be Dino? Dion? Niod? Doin'? Onid? Nodi?

He'd be a Noid.

[Yeti]

Praise Odin! The thunder of Thor shall shake the world once more! No more "tolerance", no more "diversity", no more feminized, emasculating beliefs, no more Mr. Nice Guy. The West awakens again!

I'm up for it! "Better fearlessness than faintness of heart for him who would put his nose out of doors..."

Honor, Death and Glory await us!

[RightWhale]

Good. Thanks. How the virtues are to be applied is of course the subject of the study of Ethics. This would be a kind of Virtue Ethics. If the ethics is pure virtue ethics where virtues are the only guide, then it is called radical virtue ethics and problems develop in applying virtues in judgements and decisions as to how to act especially where virtues conflict in particular cases. Seems like a standard list of Aristotelian virtues.

[snarkpup]

Can I get an amen! Obviously not the moral credo of the Democrats that's for darn sure. ;-)

I browsed several Asatru web sites a couple of years ago (after one of them was interviewed on KSFO) and found some indications that, like Christians, some of them are also dealing with attacks from The Left.

[Dead Corpse]

Of course. As for some of the Asatru groups out there, you gotta watch out for the closet Aryan Nationalists. Because of the Norse emphasis on family and your honoring your heritage, they have tried to co-opt Odinism as their "whites only" religion. This is patently stupid as any study of Norse customs would show that the scandenavian tribes would at times make their slaves freemen and adopt members as they proved themselves worthy.