That's what happens when you inhale too many toxic volcanic fumes...
Posted on 02/02/2015 7:00:08 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age. Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in Iceland.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
the temples for the tourists in winter.....Im betting
C. S. Lewis
1
You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'.
Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House
Spill from their tumblers a libation to the Erinyes,
And Leavis with Lord Russell wreathed in flowers, heralded with flutes,
Leading white bulls to the cathedral of the solemn Muses
To pay where due the glory of their latest theorem.
Hestia's fire in every flat, rekindled, burned before
The Lardergods. Unmarried daughters with obedient hands
Tended it. By the hearth the white-arm'd venerable mother
Domum servabat, lanam faciebat. At the hour
Of sacrifice their brothers came, silent, corrected, grave
Before their elders; on their downy cheeks easily the blush
Arose (it is the mark of freemen's children) as they trooped,
Gleaming with oil, demurely home from the palaestra or the dance.
Walk carefully, do not wake the envy of the happy gods,
Shun Hubris. The middle of the road, the middle sort of men,
Are best. Aidos surpasses gold. Reverence for the aged
Is wholesome as seasonable rain, and for a man to die
Defending the city in battle is a harmonious thing.
Thus with magistral hand the Puritan Sophrosune
Cooled and schooled and tempered our uneasy motions;
Heathendom came again, the circumspection and the holy fears ...
You said it. Did you mean it? Oh inordinate liar, stop.
2
Or did you mean another kind of heathenry?
Think, then, that under heaven-roof the little disc of the earth,
Fortified Midgard, lies encircled by the ravening Worm.
Over its icy bastions faces of giant and troll
Look in, ready to invade it. The Wolf, admittedly, is bound;
But the bond wil1 break, the Beast run free. The weary gods,
Scarred with old wounds the one-eyed Odin, Tyr who has lost a hand,
Will limp to their stations for the Last defence. Make it your hope
To be counted worthy on that day to stand beside them;
For the end of man is to partake of their defeat and die
His second, final death in good company. The stupid, strong
Unteachable monsters are certain to be victorious at last,
And every man of decent blood is on the losing side.
Take as your model the tall women with yellow hair in plaits
Who walked back into burning houses to die with men,
Or him who as the death spear entered into his vitals
Made critical comments on its workmanship and aim.
Are these the Pagans you spoke of? Know your betters and crouch, dogs;
You that have Vichy water in your veins and worship the event
Your goddess History (whom your fathers called the strumpet Fortune).
When Avian Flu hit my tribe a few years ago, the Canadian Gubmint refused to send hand sanitizer because they were afraid we’d DRINK it.
But we prefer husky Whiz.
As immortalized in the Zappa tribute.
they were afraid we’d DRINK it.
THATS astonishing!
Thanks!
What is worse than not sending the hand sanitizer, they instead sent 100 body bags.
Yes.
You read that right.
I have to wonder how many body bags were purchased and warehoused during the ebola hysteria
It’s kind of like Kwanzaa, isn’t it, the nordic version? Let’s see, who does that remind us of?
Ah, yes, the return to worship of rocks and planets and animals and self. Stone-cold dead gods all. And they don’t have the alibi the ancients had that they hadn’t been told. These new-old pagans will eventually return to blood-letting. Such is the natural trajectory of paganism. Just as it is in Islam.
That's what happens when you inhale too many toxic volcanic fumes...
self absorbed tree hugging wind worshipping hippies....in various sorts of “costumes”
Paid for by our money, of course.
ahahahahah I can almost HEAR Revrunt Sharpton touting this place...
we are gonna bow to the WIND...I say, Much
I didnt read that much of the article...I was too amused by their idea of progress...and anxious to get the thread posted. so I dont know where the “funding” is coming from
I distinctly see the image of Odin.....in that cloud o’ smoke..../s
No?
Dang it.
Iceland is not considered a “poor” country as far as i can tell.
At least they don’t have heating bills.
A rather nasty crack about Russell, IMHO. Bert was never a pagan; he wasn’t even a very convincing atheist. But I do love Lewis.
Good luck with your pagan gods who do not exist.
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