On Sep 8, 12:31 pm, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@gmail.com> wrote: Insofar as Rydberg's followers claim simply that his rewriting of the myths appeals to them, you're right. Yet it remains that he has rewritten them. So? He's in good company. Every myth is a story refined in the telling. The answer to "so?" depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking

On Aug 27, 1:59 pm, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@gmail.com> wrote: Eric wrote: On Aug 25, 10:54 pm, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@gmail.com> wrote: And do the Gods *really* lose at Ragnarok or is this just a case of us swallowing Xian propaganda wholesale and uncritically? If so it has major implications for our religion and how we see ourselves.

On Aug 25, 10:54 pm, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@gmail.com> wrote: And do the Gods *really* lose at Ragnarok or is this just a case of us swallowing Xian propaganda wholesale and uncritically? If so it has major implications for our religion and how we see ourselves. FFF Dirk http://www.onetribe.me.uk- The UK's only occult talk show Presented by Dirk Bruere and

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@gmail.com> wrote: Which brings up a point I have been meaning to post about. I was at a talk last year by Thorskegga Thorn concerning Ragnarok. Unfortunately I cannot recall all the details but the gist of it was that the Ragnarok story that has come down to us was likely but one. She claimed, for example, that variations of the story of Thor going

Eric wrote: The following is Asatru-related stuff from a thread in a.r.a. Rolling it up the steep hill into s.r.a. to see if it provides a basis for more participation. *** I've come to the conclusion that my Asatru revolves very little around the Ragnarok myth. Maybe it's too close to the extremely dualistic viewpoint of my Baptist youth. Which brings up a point